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Today trade unions are still an important force in South Africa, with 3.11 million members representing 25.3% of the formal work force. [1] The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is the largest of the three major trade union centres, with a membership of 1.8 million, and is part of the Tripartite alliance with the ruling African ...
South African Parastatal and Tertiary Institutions Union: SAPTU: 2008: South African Typographical Union: SATU: 1898: 11,344 Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysers Unie: SAOU: 1997: 32,029 Tertiary Education National Union of South Africa: TENUSA: 2005: United Association of South Africa: UASA: 1998: 74,138 United National Public Servants Association of ...
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. Although it stated that the ...
Union [5] Abbreviation Founded Left Reason not affiliated Membership (1992) [6] ABSA Workers' Union: ABSAWU: 8,500 Administrative, Technical and Electronic Association of South Africa: ATEASA: 1996: 1997: Transferred to FEDUSA: N/A: Airline Pilots' Association of South Africa: ALPA-SA: 1997: Transferred to FEDUSA: N/A: Artisan Staff Association ...
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.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a mainly mining industry related trade union, an organisation of workers with common goals through organised labour, in South Africa. With a membership of 300,000 as of 2014 [update] , it is the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
This took the federation's membership to a maximum of 25 unions with 206,511 members. [ 1 ] While the Government of South Africa allowed unions to represent both white and "coloured" workers, and from 1980, black workers as well, SACOL only permitted unions restricted to white workers to affiliate.
The union was founded in 1956, as a split from the Furniture Workers' Industrial Union, which restricted itself to white workers. NUFAW initially represented only "coloured" workers in the industry. [1] It affiliated to the South African Confederation of Labour, and by 1962 was its only affiliate to represent non-white workers. [2]