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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.
Professional Transport and Allied Workers' Union: PTAWU: 1980: 17,600 South African Communication Union: SACU: 1994: 5,136 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 ...
On 30 November 1985, 33 unions met at the University of Natal for talks on forming a federation of trade unions. [2] This followed four years of unity talks between competing unions and federations that were opposed to apartheid and were "committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa."
It was affiliated to the South African Trades and Labour Council. Afrikaner nationalist groups attempted to win over the union, but were unsuccessful. After Tyler died in 1943, he was succeeded by Billy Blake, also a founder member of the union. [5] At the end of the 1940s, the union merged with the Amalgamated Bricklayers' Trade Union of South ...
The 1973 Durban strikes are widely cited by academics as a turning point in South Africa's industrial relations system as it gave rise to the black trade union movement [10] [3] [2] [11] and was a major step forward in the struggle to build a mass democratic opposition to apartheid which played a central role in the struggle for the ...
The federation was founded in 1930, when the South African Trades Union Council merged with the Cape Federation of Labour Unions. [1] The federation was broadly split between the craft unions and mining unions, which generally only admitted white workers and took conservative positions; and a growing number of industrial unions, which admitted white, Asian and "coloured" members, and often ...
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 dissolution of the Trade Union Council of South Africa in 1986 attracted new affiliates. It campaigned against the introduction of Value Added Tax , for a National Economic Forum, and to restructure the National Manpower Commission.