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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?
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.