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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 ...
Eskom struggles to power Africa's most industrialised nation because of repeated faults at its ailing coal-fired power stations and is choking under more than 460 billion rand ($32 billion) of debt.
The Trades Union Congress, the voice of Britain’s unions, said one in 12 of the workers have been with their current employer for more than a decade, while almost half have been in the same job ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Africa has a sizable automotive industry, which is largely export-oriented. [1] The sector employs approximately 110,000 South Africans. [3] Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, exports and production for the county's automotive industry fell by about one-third, and the industry's proportion of South Africa's total gross domestic product (GDP) fell from 6.4% to 4.9%. [1]
The union was founded in 2015, as a split from the South African Municipal Workers Union. In 2017, it was a founding affiliate of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), and as of 2020, it had about 12,000 members. [1] In 2019, the union held a strike ballot among Metrobus workers in Johannesburg. Although it stated that the ...