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The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) is the biggest union in the South African clothing, textile, footwear and leather industry, with more than 100 000 members. It negotiates wages for the vast majority of workers in these industries in South Africa, with the collective bargaining agreements covering over 150 000 ...
[5]: 482 The ICU was initially a union for black and coloured dockworkers in Cape Town and formed by Clements Kadalie and Arthur F. Batty. [5]: 482 It was the first nationally organized union for black workers who would eventually include rural farm workers, domestic and factory workers, dockworkers, teachers and retailers.
The first General Secretary was the union stalwart, Emma Mashinini, and Makhulu Ledwaba was elected as the first President of CCAWUSA. It initially grew strongly, but an unsuccessful strike in 1984 for higher wages in large hotels led to most of the hospitality workers leaving, while the small Federal Council of Retail and Allied Workers also ...
The federation was formed by the merger of the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) and the Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions (AZACTU) in 1986. [1]: 488 In its early years, the federation was strongly influenced by the black consciousness movement, but was divided in its attitude to the African National Congress.
In SACTWU v Marley, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration refused organisational rights to a union with 42 per cent representativity, on the basis that another union represented 56 per cent of employees in the workplace, and because the employer had a long association with the other union, which included an agency-shop ...
SACTWU had pursued the inquiry on the basis that several hundred-million rands in SACTWU pension funds had been invested in Canyon Springs and subsequently lost, amid alleged embezzlement and fraud. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Because he had been general-secretary of the union at the time the investment was made, Patel was initially summoned to testify at ...
The union had about 70,000 members, mostly in Natal and Transvaal. Like its predecessors, it affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions. On 16 September 1989, it merged with the Garment and Allied Workers' Union of South Africa, to form the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union. [1] [2]
The union was established on 5 December 1987, when the Garment Workers' Industrial Union merged with the Garment Workers' Union of the Western Province. It initially had 102,000 members, the large majority in Natal, but also with some strength in Western Cape. The new union requested affiliation to the Congress of South African Trade Unions ...