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The Federal Council of Retail and Allied Workers (FEDCRAW) is a trade union representing workers in the retail sector in South Africa. The union was founded on 8 August 1984 as a split from the Commercial Catering and Allied Workers' Union of South Africa, led by officials who were employed at Edgars in Dobsonville. It soon expanded to cover ...
The union renamed itself as the "South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union". [ 2 ] SACCAWU is an affiliate of COSATU as well as an affiliate of two International Unions, UNI-Global Unions where the General Secretary Bones Skulu serve on the executive as well as serving as President of UN- Africa, and Union of Food ...
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.
African Textile Workers' Industrial Union: 2,900 Cape African Commercial and Distributive Workers' Union: 150 Cape Cement and Quarry Workers' Union: 625 Cape South African Railways and Harbours Non-European Workers' Union: 300 Cape Tin Workers' Union: 150 Cape Town Hospital Workers' Union (African) 150 Cape Town Hospital Workers' Union (Mixed) 500
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 federation was formed at a congress over the weekend of 14–15 April 1979 in Hammanskraal and officially launched five days later on 20 April. [1] [2] Its roots lay in the unions which had emerged from the spontaneous 1973 strike wave by black workers in Durban and Pinetown as part of the "Durban Moment", [3] and which had since been part of the Trade Union Advisory Co-ordinating Council ...
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 ...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) was a national trade union federation of workers representing workers in South Africa.. The federation was founded in 1951, as a split from the South African Trades and Labour Council by right-wing unions which accepted apartheid and did not approve of black workers being given a role in governing trade unions.