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Fighting retrenchment
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Feb 22, 2016

Fighting retrenchment

Retrenchment Is cAused by the free market system that places profit before people. But with organisation we can fight re...

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Profile of a worker leader
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Feb 22, 2016

Profile of a worker leader

The FOSATU Worker News here kicks off with the first of a series of interviews with FOSATU's worker leaders.

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Councils wages bettered
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Feb 22, 2016

Councils wages bettered

Within six weeks of gaining recognition at Leyland SA's warehouse and repair shop in Elandsfontein, NAAWU negotiated a n...

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Union merger
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Feb 22, 2016

Union merger

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Fosatu slams Labour Party
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Feb 22, 2016

Fosatu slams Labour Party

FOSATU has strongly condemned the Labour Party's decision to participate in the Government's farcical constitutional ref...

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Call for United Stand
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Feb 22, 2016

Call for United Stand

The FOSATU Executive has called for a united stand by workers against the Government's growing propaganda campaign for i...

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Labour Party's 'dangerous game'
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Feb 22, 2016

Labour Party's 'dangerous game'

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Workers face guns
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Feb 22, 2016

Workers face guns

Armed white security guards confronted CWIU members at Triomf's Richards Bay plant when they attempted to discuss with t...

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Workers win R38 000 in court victory
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Feb 22, 2016

Workers win R38 000 in court victory

Fifty one workers at Stobar at Olifantsfontein through their solidarity have won a major victory in the Industrial Court...

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Joint shop steward courses
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Feb 22, 2016

Joint shop steward courses

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Worldwide support for shoe workers
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Feb 22, 2016

Worldwide support for shoe workers

The plight of workers at the Kwa-Zulu Shoe Company at Loskop in Natal has roused the anger of unions worldwide.

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New links with international labour
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Feb 22, 2016

New links with international labour

John Copelyn, the acting general secretary of the National Union of Textile Workers, has been appointed to the Executive...

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Fosatu Worker News February 1983
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Feb 22, 2016

Fosatu Worker News February 1983

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Breakthrough at Dorbyl
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Feb 22, 2016

Breakthrough at Dorbyl

The giant Dorbyl group, which has been hit by a number of strikes over retrenchment, has backed down on its refusal to n...

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CG Smith provident fund
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Feb 22, 2016

CG Smith provident fund

In 1981 during a wave of strikes which virtually paralysed the Natal sugar industry and quickly spread to other industri...

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