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The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) is one of the most powerful of Namibia's trade unions. It plays a leading public role in the Namibian political space and is an ally of the ruling South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) government. [1] The MUN was established in 1986.
Union Membership Established [2] [5] Metal and Allied Namibia Workers Union (MANWU) 8,000: 1987 Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) 8,000: 1986 Namibia Financial Institutions Union (NAFINU) 4,500: Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (NAFAU) 12,000: 1986 Namibia National Teachers Union (NANTU) 16,000: 1989 Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU ...
Shaetonhodi worked for the Consolidated Diamond Mines, the Namibian subsidiary of De Beers, in the 1980s and became the first president of the Mineworkers Union of Namibia from 1986 to 1995. He lived and worked in the southern town of Oranjemund, where he was an activist with SWAPO during the Namibian War of Independence. He was detained ...
The head of the national mine workers’ union on Friday condemned what he characterized as an effort by House Republicans to block enforcement of a long-awaited federal rule directed at curbing ...
Ben Ulenga (born Benjamin Crispus Ulenga on June 22, 1952 [1]) is a Namibian trade unionist, politician, and diplomat. In the 1990s, he served under the SWAPO government as a deputy minister and as an ambassador, but he left SWAPO in 1998 and founded an opposition party, the Congress of Democrats (CoD), in 1999.
The Mine Workers' Union or Mineworkers' Union is the name of: Andhra Pradesh Mica Mine Workers Union, current trade union in India; Canadian Mineworkers Union, former trade union; Ghana Mine Workers' Union, current trade union; Mine Workers' Union of Canada, former trade union; Mineworkers Union of Namibia, current trade union
The 1971–72 Namibian contract workers general strike was a labour dispute in Namibia between African contract workers (particularly miners) [6] and the apartheid government. Workers sought to end the contract-labour system, which many described as close to slavery.
Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working amid heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and others.