The TUCSA affiliated Garment Workers Industrial Union has backed down on its earlier threat to have workers fired for belonging to the National Union of Textile Workers.
Archive record
Garment union backs down on its threat to fire NUTW members

- Origin date
- January 1989
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Garment union backs down on its threat to fire NUTW members. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106927
South African History Online (2016) 'Garment union backs down on its threat to fire NUTW members', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106927 (Accessed: 6 September 2026).
South African History Online, Garment union backs down on its threat to fire NUTW members [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106927, (accessed 6 September 2026).
"Garment union backs down on its threat to fire NUTW members." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106927. Accessed 6 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Garment union backs down on its threat to fire NUTW members." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106927.
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