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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 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 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. It began admitting unions representing any workers, and in 1992 renamed itself as FEDSAL.
The General Workers' Union (GWU) was a general union representing workers in South Africa. The union was founded in 1977, on the initiative of the Western Province Workers' Advice Bureau. It was initially named the Western Province General Workers' Union, but expanded across the country in 1980, becoming the "General Workers' Union". By that ...
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 federation was established in 1957, as a loose body bringing together the South African Federation of Trade Unions, the Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions, the Federal Consultative Council of South African Railways and Harbours Staff Associations, and the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA).
The new union took part in numerous strikes, including major actions at Plessey and National Panasonic. In May 1989, the union merged with the Electronic and Electrical Workers' Union, the Engineering and Allied Workers' Union and the United Automobile and Motor Workers' Union, to form the Metal and Electrical Workers' Union of South Africa. [1 ...
The unions with a mixed membership, such as the South African Typographical Union, soon left to join the new Trade Union Council of South Africa, which similarly did not admit black workers. In 1957, the federation affiliated to the South African Confederation of Labour (SACOL). By 1962, it had 11 affiliates, with a total of 66,263 members.