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The federation was formed by the merger of the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) and the Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions (AZACTU) in 1986. [1]: 488 In its early years, the federation was strongly influenced by the black consciousness movement, but was divided in its attitude to the African National Congress.
This was to be short-lived, and negotiations between COSATU, NACTU and the South African Committee on Labour Affairs (SACOLA) eventually produced a 1991 amendment which effectively repealed the previous powers. In 1990 SACTU, which had continued underground activities from exile, dissolved and advised its members to join COSATU.
In 2006, it began negotiating a merger with the rival National Council of Trade Unions. They formed an umbrella organisation, the South African Confederation of Trade Unions, in 2007, but it achieved little, and the two federations remained independent. [4] The federation has favoured negotiation over industrial action.
National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) 1.8 million (COSATU) 556,000 (FEDUSA) 397,000 (NACTU) 700.000 (SAFTU) COSATU FEDUSA NACTU SAFTU Swaziland Trade Union Congress of Swaziland: 35,000 São Tomé and Príncipe
Union Abbreviation Founded Left Reason not affiliated Membership (2018) [3] National Transport Movement: NTM: 2012: 2018: Disaffiliated: 52,250 Private Schools and Allied Workers' Union
The Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions (AZACTU) was a national trade union federation in South Africa.. The federation was established in 1984, with eight affiliates, representing a total of 75,000 black workers.
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 formed at a congress over the weekend of 14–15 April 1979 in Hammanskraal and officially launched five days later on 20 April. [1] [2] Its roots lay in the unions which had emerged from the spontaneous 1973 strike wave by black workers in Durban and Pinetown as part of the "Durban Moment", [3] and which had since been part of the Trade Union Advisory Co-ordinating Council ...