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The Democratised Transport Logistics and Allied Workers Union (DETAWU) is a trade union representing workers in the transportation and logistics industries in South Africa. The union was founded in 2015, as a split from the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU). It argued that SATAWU lacked internal democracy and was ...
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa.SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to ...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 2017, and is the second largest of the country's main trade union confederations , with 21 affiliated trade unions organising 800,000 workers.
Trade unions are recognized within the 1996 Constitution of South Africa, which provides for the right to join trade unions and for unions to bargain collectively and strike. [8] That has translated into the Labour Relations Act, which established the working framework for both unions and employers.
In 1980, it was a founding affiliate of the Council of Unions of South Africa, and it grew from 8,183 members in 1981, [1] to 23,327 in 1986. [2] It was particularly strong among bus workers in Gauteng, and in Lebowa, Bophuthatswana and QwaQwa. [3] In 1986, the union became part of the new National Council of Trade Unions, to which it remains ...
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.
The federation was established in 2003 by 21 trade unions which identified themselves as Christian democratic.It applied for membership of the government's National Economic Development and Labour Council, but it was rejected for having a membership below 300,000.
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." COSATU was officially established on 1 ...