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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 ...
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 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.
South African telecoms company Telkom SA <TKGJ.J> told unions on Wednesday it could cut up to 3,000 of more than 15,000 staff as it struggles with declining performance in fixed voice and fixed ...
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 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]
The federation was established in 2003 by 21 trade unions which identified themselves as Christian democratic.It applied for membership of the government's National Economic Development and Labour Council, but it was rejected for having a membership below 300,000.
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 ...