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ArchiveLeather workers victory
ArchiveFosatu Worker News No 40 August 1985
ArchiveFosatu Worker News Number 40 August 1985
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 resistance to the tour…
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 at the giant…
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 against South Africa.
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 mass detentions of…
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 number of Eastern Cape…
ArchiveSharpeville - March 21, 1960 by Petrus Tom
In 1960 before that terrible day of March 21 some workers resigned from work because they were preparing for that day.
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 factories would have…
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 and the harassment of…
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 independent union in…
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 Cape Town Municipal…
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 could be on the way as…
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 months.
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 strengthen organisation at…
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 new organisation and…
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 I am dead, I would…
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 vigil to prevent the…
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 controlled milling machine…
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 living costs.
ArchivePaid May Day won in Natal
Another two companies organised by FOSATU affiliated unions have won May Day as a paid public holiday.
ArchiveFosatu Worker News Number 31 August 1984
ArchiveKDCs minimum doubled
Due to the campaigning of Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union members, the KwaZulu Development Corporation has nearly doubled the minimum wage of all its…
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 Union.