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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 ...
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).
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 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 ...
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."
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 established in March 1955, after right wing unions dissolved the South African Trades and Labour Council in 1954 to form the exclusive white, coloured, and Indian workers' Trade Union Council of South Africa. [1]
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 ...