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ArchiveR15 000 paid to sacked Dunlop workers
The long-standing dispute between the Metal and Allied Workers Union and Dunlop which led to a strike by 2 000 workers at four factories in…
ArchiveGerman unionist visits Transvaal Alloys
A worker representative on the board of directors of Nord-Deutsche Affinerie, a German-based multinational, recently came out to South…
ArchiveToyota agreement
ArchiveRenault steward released after four-month detention
ArchiveLP shows its true colours
The Labour Party has once again shown its true colours by accusing worker leaders of inciting the student boycott in the Uitenhage area.
International pressure is a challenge to apartheid, says union vice-president
The Ford closure in Port Elizabeth clearly reveals that multinationals have absolutely no interest in the welfare of workers and their…
ArchiveWorkers Day poster - May 1
ArchiveWe will not ride!
More than 60 000 workers living near Richards Bay and Empangeni have been boycotting Empangeni buses since January 14 in protest against…
ArchiveThe struggle for trade unions
When workers come together and decide to form an organisation to help them at their work, this organisation is called a trade union. But,…
ArchiveThe shrinking car industry
ArchiveMotor merger slammed
ArchiveAmerican unionists demonstrate against apartheid
During the past several months more American union members than ever before have been involved in demonstrations against South Africa's…
ArchiveApartheid runs on Fluor power
Only three-days after the 6 500 Sasol workers were sacked for the their role in the November stay-away, scabs were being bused in from the…
ArchiveThe making of the working class: Part 11 - The ICU collapses
Collapses BY the end of 1924 paid up membership of the ICU stood at 11 000. Most of these members were concentrated in the Eastern and…
ArchiveHow many???
How many people are unemployed at the moment? Every worker knows that the only real answer to this question is that it is too many. But it…
ArchiveEverything set for new federation
It looks like everything is set for the formation of the new super federation later this year.
ArchiveDemands for metal wage talks
It's that time of the year again and the yearly tussle at the giant metal industry's industrial council is due to begin.
ArchiveNew maternity benefits at Henkel
Women workers at Henkel at Prospecton will be paid as much as 78 percent of their wages during maternity leave as a result of a new…
ArchiveFactory wage talks in paper industry
For the first time in the history of the pulp and paper industrial council, employers have agreed to refer the wage negotiations back to…
ArchiveA milestone!
THE settlement signed between the Chemical Workers Industrial Union and Sasol will surely go down as a milestone in South African labour…
ArchiveFood workers issue call for unity
In building a workers' movement in South Africa, unity is essential, Chris Dlamini, the president of both FOSATU and Sweet Food and Allied…
ArchiveTransport workers flock in
Goods transport workers are flocking to the Transport and General Workers Union and in the past four months the union has won a majority at…
ArchiveBakers strike ends in victory
One thousand workers in Bakers' Isando and Pinetown factories ended their two week legal strike with a taste of victory.
ArchivePatons moves to Bophuthatswana
British multinational, Coats Patons, has decided to close its two Randfontein factories, lay off all the workers, and then reopen in…
ArchiveTUCSA unions fail to block NUTW
TUCSA unions attending the Congress of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation failed to win support for a…
ArchiveCourt told to reconsider decision
The crucial battle to win stop order rights for National Union of Textile Workers' members at Table Bay Spinners has taken a new turn.
ArchiveR200 pension for life!
Forty yea old Maria Maseko was one of the first workers discovered to have the cotton dust disease, Brown Lung, in the National Union of…
ArchiveBarlows company refuses to discuss retrenchments with shop stewards
For the second time SA Traction Manufacturing at Germiston has refused to negotiate retrenchments with the Metal and Allied Workers Union.
ArchiveCG Smith provident fund
In 1981 during a wave of strikes which virtually paralysed the Natal sugar industry and quickly spread to other industries, thousands upon…
ArchiveBreakthrough at Dorbyl
The giant Dorbyl group, which has been hit by a number of strikes over retrenchment, has backed down on its refusal to negotiate severance…
ArchiveNew links with international labour
John Copelyn, the acting general secretary of the National Union of Textile Workers, has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the…
ArchiveWorldwide 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.
ArchiveJoint shop steward courses
ArchiveWorkers 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 which will prevent…
ArchiveWorkers face guns
Armed white security guards confronted CWIU members at Triomf's Richards Bay plant when they attempted to discuss with the factory manager…
ArchiveLabour Party's 'dangerous game'
ArchiveCall for United Stand
The FOSATU Executive has called for a united stand by workers against the Government's growing propaganda campaign for its so called plan…
ArchiveFosatu slams Labour Party
FOSATU has strongly condemned the Labour Party's decision to participate in the Government's farcical constitutional reform.
ArchiveUnion merger
ArchiveCouncils wages bettered
Within six weeks of gaining recognition at Leyland SA's warehouse and repair shop in Elandsfontein, NAAWU negotiated a new wage deal for…
ArchiveProfile of a worker leader
The FOSATU Worker News here kicks off with the first of a series of interviews with FOSATU's worker leaders.
ArchiveFighting retrenchment
Retrenchment Is cAused by the free market system that places profit before people. But with organisation we can fight retrenchment.
ArchiveMigrant laws used against workers
There is increasing evidence that the country's migrant labour laws are being used against workers in an attempt to curb union strength.
ArchiveUnions mourn Aggett
The following statement was released by the Food and Canning Workers Union to commemorate the death of Neil Aggctt one year ago.
ArchiveOverseas news
This letter was sent by the union members at the Atlas Copco plant in Sweden. MAWU is organising at Atlas Copco in Benoni near Johannesburg.
ArchiveForeign companies
A FOSATU report released in February shows that in general the record of foreign companies on Union recognition remains bad.
ArchiveLeyland
After reaching a deadlock and having to go to arbitration the FOSATU affiliate Western Province Motor Assembly Workers Union and Leyland…
ArchiveWhat are parallel Unions?
Parallel unions are like elephants. We all know an elephant when we see one but if asked to describe one we have to stop and think for a…
ArchiveFOSATU guide to Unions organising African workers
Table of information
ArchiveThe Ford strike
On the 9th January, 1980 a settlement was reached which ended the Ford Strike in Port Elizabeth?