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… Line (PDL) were printed and distributed by the students to workers in industrial areas, outside factory gates and at taxi ranks. 400 workers attend, and all sign an objection to the Wage Board's … Board's meeting. July, A proposal is made at a National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) conference that wages …

… 1978, a survey reviewing the pay of female South African workers was published in The Black Sash , an influential … paid a price for the exploitation of their female factory workers (Gasa). This paralleled a historic South African … them with some restrictions and mandate they register the union with the state (South Africa History Online). …

… of the independent and black consciousness oriented Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA). In addition to … and provided anti-apartheid cartoons. Bob Symes, a Workers Revolutionary Party supporter, later helped with … articles on South Africa’s growing independent trade union movement. By working with different and mutually …

… (FOSATU) in 1979. FOSATU was the first South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that … Trade Union (FOSATU), two members of the Food and Canning Workers Union (FCWU), one of the unions that had not joined … and Monis factory in Bellville South. This was after the workers submitted a petition signed by 45 African and …

… Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of workers against exploitation. The emergence of trade union activity in the country and subsequent protests against unfair and exploitative labour practices brought workers in direct conflict with the state. A case in point is …

… Some thought it important to educate and organise Black workers purely as a means to support the already militant vanguard of White workers in their struggle to overturn capitalism. Others, … Socialist League and Clothing Workers Industrial Union Image source Notwithstanding the fact that the …

… Soon after the 1971 garment workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the … These and other students did assist with organising Indian workers, but their focus was, from the start, was to … workers. From 1971, this core group of Durban National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), together with …

… Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for national liberation, democracy and … a national minimum wage and exploitation of workers. Trade union action in the struggle for power by united workers is …

… of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). 2012 9 August, A number of employees from … death by protesters and their vehicles torched. Striking workers infiltrate production areas, assaulting three on duty … at the plant. 13 August, Three dead bodies of mine workers are found. SAPS members are attacked while escorting …

… Legislation: The Immigrants Regulation Act of the Union of South Africa The Immigrants Regulation Act of the … at Jagersfontein Diamond mine after one of their fellow-workers is kicked to death by a white overseer. White … near Pietermaritzburg January, General Strike of white workers called on the Witwatersrand. Martial law declared and …

… Town; when asked in 2004 about the world that the domestic workers lived in during apartheid she said: ‘ A look at … in [South Africa] indicates that the world of domestic workers is one of uncertainties, insecurities, and … was difficult for them to converge and discuss forming a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main …

… as well as minimum wages and good working conditions for workers. Informal settlements have been at the forefront of … of democracy. Some protests were initiated by trade union movements and others were initiated by the workers themselves. A major protest that resulted in the …

… the indictment of the leaders of the African Mineworkers Union and members of the CPSA, and continued into the fifties … of the leaflets that were regularly distributed to workers in the mining compounds and at the union’s rallies. … trade unions was causing increasing disquiet among African workers. At last, in October 1942, it seemed as if the …

… of the independent and black consciousness oriented Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA). In addition to … and provided anti-apartheid cartoons. Bob Symes, a Workers Revolutionary Party supporter, later helped with … articles on South Africa’s growing independent trade union movement. By working with different and mutually …

… action', is strike action undertaken by unionised workers without the union-leadership's authorisation, support, or approval. On 9 … weapons (machetes also known as pangas), to which the workers refused, saying they needed the pangas for everyday …

… South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers Published by the South African Communist Party, 1986 … unrivalled contribution to the building of the black trade union movement as a vital instrument of struggle against the … committees in the mine compounds. In 1941, when the Mine Workers' Union was revived on the initiative of the SACP and …

… formed a pact to win the general elections held in the Union of South Africa in 1924. Their main opposition was the … The Government also sought to tighten control of Black workers by passing laws in the 1920s that severely curtailed … in industries to protect skilled and semi-skilled white workers against their replacement by cheap black labour. The …

… made their way to the mines in search of employment, white workers were increasingly being alarmed at the prospects of … under Cresswell. Their concern for the protection of white workers against competition from Blacks, especially in the … The period saw the emergence of the first Black Trade Union, the Industrial Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) under …

… Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that … umbrella organisation that could coordinate Black trade union movements. It came into being after the South African … in the 1960's. It had 12 partners representing 45 000 workers. The organisation aimed to ensure that its partners …

… a Healdtown minister, the Reverend Abram Mabula. 1911 The Union parliament enacts laws that widen “the racial divide”. … Transvaal Natives Congress (TNC) emerges the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA), the first documented African labour … Vrededorp. 6 June, Fifty Johannesburg municipal sanitary workers go on strike for an extra 6d a day. This becomes …

… - either TUCSA supported the protest meeting, or the union would withdraw from TUCSA. The GWIU was TUCSA’s … GWIU would disaffiliate. She also said that the Furniture union and the Engineering union may follow suit. She TUCSA … a ‘spineless talking machine that has lost touch with the workers’. At a TUCSA meeting on 19 February 1974, executive …

… General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. … and Works Act of 1911. The latter legislated that Black workers could only be engaged as cheap semi-skilled … from seeking skilled work. For these so-called “unskilled” workers, the political environment created by racist rule …

… General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. … and Works Act of 1911. The latter legislated that Black workers could only be engaged as cheap semi-skilled … from seeking skilled work. For these so-called “unskilled” workers, the political environment created by racist rule …

… a fist and shouts "power". Helicopters fly overhead. Workers refuse to go to work. 18 June, The number of … limited easing of restrictions on the mobility of urban workers. 335 people were charged in terms of Section 16 of … in May in support of the Food and Cannings Workers Union was the first consumer boycott since the late fifties. …

… of 1910 consolidates existing immigration laws of the pre-Union colonies and excludes immigration of all persons to the … in London. 1917 The Indian Printers' Union and the Indian Workers Union (IWU) formed. The Union's respective … . 16 February, A.H. West and others advise indentured workers in Natal not to re-indenture but to become free men. …

… production would be in the hands of the proletariat (the workers or masses), and not of the elitist minority that only exploited the workers to make more money for themselves. Society would … of communism that was implemented in Russia and the Soviet Union after the 1917 Revolution is therefore known as …

… it, try to reassert their autonomy. The formation of the Union in 1910 undermines these efforts.  The British Colonial … for incorporation into South Africa. Municipal sanitary workers in Johannesburg go on strike in what becomes known as … 700 demonstrators are arrested. The Industrial Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) is established in 1919 two years into …

… value of the person. This discourse became influential in workers politics and students. Students became inspired by a … change intersected with a new independent organisation of workers, which gained further momentum from this ferment. … on Barret & Mullins during the 1970s the modern trade union movement was formed in South Africa. Organizations …

… to their own organisation.' Trade Unions A Trade Union or Labour Union is an organisation of workers. Trade union leadership bargains with the employer on … political activities to have laws changed to benefit the workers. The South African trade union movement grew in size …

… of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), the Chris Hani Institute and Workers College based in Durban. View the list of Abstracts …