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The union was founded in 2015, as a split from the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU). It argued that SATAWU lacked internal democracy and was mismanaging its finances. In 2017, the union was a founding affiliate of the South African Federation of Trade Unions. By 2018, it had about 10,000 members. [1] [2]
The union was founded in 2015, as a split from the South African Municipal Workers Union. In 2017, it was a founding affiliate of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), and as of 2020, it had about 12,000 members. [1] In 2019, the union held a strike ballot among Metrobus workers in Johannesburg.
The union suffered a split in 2012, when former president Ephraim Mphahlela led around half the membership into the new National Transport Movement. A further split in 2015 led to the founding of the Democratised Transport Logistics and Allied Workers Union. [2] SATAWU is an affiliate of the COSATU and the International Transport Workers ...
Since 2013, the lowest number of union members were in 2020 and 2021 – in the midst of the pandemic – at 14,012,000 and 14,285,000 respectively. PolitiFact Truth-o-meter: Mostly true.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 2017, and is the second largest of the country's main trade union confederations , with 21 affiliated trade unions organising 800,000 workers.
By 2012 the trade union had a total of 2,191,016 members and 20 affiliated unions. [8] Since then Cosatu experienced a large drop in membership partially due to a decline in affiliate membership numbers, [ 9 ] between 2015 and 2022 it lost over 416 000 members.
GOBankingRates looked at the membership numbers from some 78 different unions as available through the Department of Labor and identified 30 that still have at least 100,000 members.
The union grew to a membership of 53,000 by 1961, but was driven underground, and for a decade black unionism was again virtually silenced in South Africa. In 1979 the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was formed, with the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) being created in the following year.