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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.
The Agricultural Food and Allied Democratic Workers Union (AFADWU) is a trade union representing food processing workers in South Africa. The union was founded in 2016 after the dismissal of an army of worker leaders, shop stewards and officials by the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU). [ 1 ]
The council was established in 1924, as the South African Association of Employees' Organisations. It was founded at a special congress, held after the collapse of the South African Industrial Federation , which was called by the Minister of Labour , Frederic Creswell .
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 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 ...
The union was founded in February 1995, on the initiative of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, which wanted one single union to represent all farm workers. Its initial membership was mostly drawn from the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), the Paper, Wood and Allied Workers' Union , the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers ...
Clearly this infringes upon an employee's right to freedom of association. Union security arrangements therefore require compulsory union membership, or compulsory payment of a union subscription. In the South African context, the term "union-security arrangements" refers to the so-called "closed-shop" and "agency-shop" agreements.