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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 communities in the…
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 the company's poor…
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, as we will see it is…
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 apartheid system.
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 homelands by…
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 Western Cape.
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The present economic crisis is extremely serious. And there is absolutely no sign that government policy will correct the problem.
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 is important to know…
ArchiveWorking women
'Working Women' will be published by Sached and Ravan Press in May
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 agreement negotiated by the…
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 factory level in an…
ArchiveA milestone!
THE settlement signed between the Chemical Workers Industrial Union and Sasol will surely go down as a milestone in South African labour history.
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 Workers Union, told…
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 eight new Transvaal…
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 Bophuthatswana where it…
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 resolution barring the…
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 Textile Workers'…
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 thousands of workers…
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 pay at factory-level.
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