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The workers will receive a 7 percent increase in wage as well as an increase in housing allowances, which will cost Eskom an extra more than 1 billion South African rands (about 60 million U.S. dollars) over the one-year period, it said. The main union at Eskom, the National Union o...
trade unionstransnational solidarityThis article considers the response of the largest trade union federation in South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), to an extended free trade agenda, which has formed a key part of neoliberal restructuring during recent decades. It ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook COSATU (redirected fromCongress of South African Trade Unions) Acronyms Wikipedia COSATU (ˌkəʊˈzɑːtuː) n acronym for (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) Congress of South Africa Trade Unions ...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is planning a national shutdown to protest the rising costs of living in the country and the ongoing energy crisis. SAFTU is the country's second-largest trade union confederation with an estimated membership of 800,000 workers. ...
Changing Perspectives on South African Trade Unions - Plaut - 1984 () Citation Context ...— tools in theshands of the employers and the registered unions… Repression of trade union activity means that in the long run, meaningful advances can only be made on an underground basiss(quoted in...
Trade unions have been demanding a 10 percent wage increase while Eskom only offered a 5.3 percent increase. A major South African trade union representing workers at Eskom, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), told Xinhua on Monday that it doesn't know when the negotiations will resume....
Transnational Capital, Urban Globalisation and Cross-Border Solidarity: the Case of the South African Municipal Workers. Discusses the redefinition of strategies of international solidarity and action in trade unions with regards to the South African Municipal Workers' Union ... Barchiesi,Franco - 《...
Tshoaedi, Malehoko (2002) `Women in the labour movement: Perceptions of gender democracy in South African trade unions' in Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith (eds), Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives, London: Routledge....
[Johannesburg], June 4). The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a powerful government-allied trade union federation representing nearly two million workers, warned that the “anarchy” in the platinum mining region had created a “prevailing sense of insecurity… No one is being ...