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The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) is the biggest union in the South African clothing, textile, footwear and leather industry, with more than 100 000 members. It negotiates wages for the vast majority of workers in these industries in South Africa, with the collective bargaining agreements covering over 150 000 ...
The National Union of Textile Workers (NUTW) was a trade union representing workers in the textile industry in South Africa. The union was established in September 1973, following a series of strikes in Durban .
The union had about 70,000 members, mostly in Natal and Transvaal. Like its predecessors, it affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions . On 16 September 1989, it merged with the Garment and Allied Workers' Union of South Africa , to form the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union .
Textile and clothing trade unions are labor unions that represent workers in the textile industry and garment industry. A partial list is as follows. International IndustriALL Global Union (Switzerland) International Trade Union Confederation (Belgium) Africa Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (South Africa) Asia
The new union requested affiliation to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). However, the COSATU's policy was that there should only be one union per industry, and so asked GAWU to merge with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union of South Africa (ACTWUSA). In the meantime, it granted it only observer status. [1] [2 ...
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In 1950, the union was banned from representing both black and white workers, and so it formed the African Textile Workers' Industrial Union to represent black workers. In 1954, its white members split away to form a racial union. [2] The surviving union affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa.