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ArchiveRegistration - the big test
FOSATU has made its position quite clear. We believe that the law should not divide workers by race. Workers must be allowed to join the…
ArchiveVictimization - employer found guilty
ArchiveFOSATU 1980 - the worker movement grows
ArchiveThe Industrial Conciliation Act 1981 recipe for chaos
ArchivePension - workers must be allowed to speak
ArchiveLeather workers victory
ArchiveRowens strike clause
Jacobs motor component manufacturers, Rowen, and the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union have signed a unique strike agreement.
ArchiveTussle at VW over tour kombis
The All Blacks rugby tour was called off in July just a week before the team was due to leave New Zealand. It was determined protest and…
ArchiveLong bitter struggle at Frame has ended
The longest recognition struggle in South African labour history has come to an end. Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker members…
Archive30 000 in KwaThema funeral march
Fifteen coffins were carried in a mass procession of over 30 000 people to the graveyard in the Springs township of KwaThema on July 23.
ArchiveBotha's new 'weapon'
President P W Botha has discovered a new weapon in his attempts to combat the increasing international pressure for economic sanctions…
ArchiveOver 1 500 detained since July 20
One of the major reasons for the State President, PW Botha, declaring a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts was to justify the…
ArchiveMass detentions, now a curfew
Using the special powers granted to it by the declaration of a State of Emergency, the South African Police has declared a curfew in a…
ArchiveOnly workers can directly challenge the capitalists
Workers around the world understood that if they joined together in groups and demanded better conditions and more pay, the owners of the…
ArchiveWorking on the mines is no picnic!
During the first six months of this year, more than 100 000 miners have taken strike action over wages, bad and unsafe working conditions…
ArchiveSarmcol: the biggest campaign ever
The Metal and Allied Workers Union's B T R Sarmcol campaign is by far the largest campaign over a single factory ever undertaken by an…
ArchiveBoycott - FOSATU and other unions put their muscle behind a country-wide consumer boycott
FOSATU together with the Food and Canning Workers Union, the Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union, the General Workers Union, the…
ArchiveMetal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases
Disatisfaction with this year's industrial council wage agreement has already led to strikes at two Transvaal companies and another one…
ArchiveThree month legal strike
ABOUT 125 Metal and Allied Workers Union members at Pinetown factory, Natal Die Casting, have been out on a legal strike for over three…
ArchiveSecunda stewards acquitted
In February this year an armed man was discovered by workers in a general meeting at Secunda.
ArchiveCWIU climbs back at Sasol
Ever since the agreement with Sasol in March this year, the Chemical Workers Industrial Union has been working hard to rebuild and…
ArchiveBrazil: a Workers` Party
One of the main reasons for the fact that only four percent of Brazil's population voted for the Workers' Party was that the party was a…
ArchiveFOSATUs worker choirs now feature on new rec
A haunting voice singing 'Zithulele Mama, Noma sengifile ngiyobe ngifele lona, Izwe lakithi, Izwe leSouth Africa' (Don't cry Mama, even if…
ArchiveDurbans bread strike
Huddled in cardboard boxes to keep out the cold, some 800 workers at the B B Bread Bakery in Durban's Sydney Road kept up their night-long…
ArchiveDock workers blockade SA cargo
Southampton dock workers belonging to Britain's Transport and General Workers Union on Thursday July 31 refused to load a computer…
ArchivePension money needed by workers
Workers at Volkswagen in Uitenhage have been working short-time since October 1982. Increasingly they have found it difficult to meet their…
ArchivePaid May Day won in Natal
Another two companies organised by FOSATU affiliated unions have won May Day as a paid public holiday.
ArchiveKDCs minimum doubled
Due to the campaigning of Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union members, the KwaZulu Development Corporation has nearly doubled the minimum…
ArchiveFOSATU calls for release of detainees
The FOSATU Executive has condemned the 'inhuman' detention of two organisers from affiliated unions.
ArchiveHuge step towards proper child care
A huge step forward has been made towards providing proper child care for workers' children.
ArchiveExecutive slams union split
The FOSATU Executive has strongly condemned the four sacked union officials for forming the splinter United Metal Mining and Allied Workers…
ArchiveSupervisors demand to be recognised union members
Are supervisors workers or part of management? This question is being raised in many companies as more and more supervisors want to join a…
ArchivePremier tussles with SFAWU
The Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union has accused the Premier Group of shifting production from one factory to another in order to crush…
ArchivePraise poem to FOSATU
ArchivePetrol bombs hit unionists homes
Petrol bombs were thrown at the homes of two VW full time shop stewards in the early hours of Monday July 30. VW branch chairman John…
ArchiveThe making of the working class: Part 8 - 1907-1922 white workers revolt
The years 1907 to 1922 were a time of violent conflict between workers and capitalists on the Rand.
ArchiveBritish coal strike enters fifth month
As Britain's coal reserves begin to dwindle, the strike by hundreds of thousands of coal miners has begun to swing in their favour and…
ArchiveCoal not dole!: an exclusive interview with a British miner
We reckon there are about 130 production workers in regularly. This would mean about 1 500 to 2 000 per week is being produced, compared to…
ArchiveEqual wages for women!
The struggle to end discrimination against women recently took another step forward in the Transvaal.
ArchiveRetrenchment an excuse to get rid of me says 55-year-old Brown Lung victim
If it hadn't been for the National Union of Textile Workers Brown Lung Campaign, Gretta Maphumulo wouldn't have known exactly what she was…
ArchiveChild care centres needed
The unions started looking at the issue of child care after being alarmed by the rate at which infant deaths are running.
ArchiveFOSATUs worker festival
ArchiveBiscuit union crumbles as workers leave to join SFAWU
For the past three years support for TUCSA's National Union of Operative Biscuit Makers and Packers has been crumbling.
ArchiveR6 million pay out
There was great excitement in all Putco depots on July 19 when the company paid out over R6 million in backpay to workers.
ArchiveSEIFSA heads for collision with metal workers
SEIFSA, the giant metal employers' association, has renewed its call for its members to resist any trade union pressure for plant-level…
ArchiveDon`t Vote: as elections creep nearer FOSATU goes door to door urging people not to vote
Thousands of homes in the Eastern Cape have been visited by FOSATU organisers and shop stewards as the federation steps up its campaign to…
ArchiveWorkers take the lead!
Workers must be encouraged to take the lead in the struggle for economic and social liberation, says Transport and General Workers Union…
ArchiveUniply workers pack industrial court case
Hundreds of Uniply workers packed into Bolton Hall in Durban on July 24 to hear union lawyers argue for the reinstatement of two of their…
ArchiveWage hike after bitter strike
In a sequel to the bitter strike at BMW earlier this year, the company and the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union have reached a…
ArchiveAECI Vynide workers strike
WORKERS at New Germany factory, AECI Vynide, went on strike for three-days last month when management tried to bring in short time.