New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid
New York, New York, United States
Second half of 1990?
3 pages
The document includes a chronology from the Labor Committee Against Apartheid (LCAA) founding in 1983 through March 1990. The document reprints a newspaper article “US sanctions ruling will protect SA workers” by Jo-Anne Collinge reprinted from The Weekly Mail. • 1983 LCAA formed following a meeting of New York labor leaders with Cyril Ramaphosa, General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa. • 1985 New York Unions lead movement for first City sanctions bill after members of D.C. 37, Local 371 discover canned South African pineapples at City shelters. • March 1985 LCAA holds national conference on labor in South Africa with representatives...
The document includes a chronology from the Labor Committee Against Apartheid (LCAA) founding in 1983 through March 1990. The document reprints a newspaper article “US sanctions ruling will protect SA workers” by Jo-Anne Collinge reprinted from The Weekly Mail. • 1983 LCAA formed following a meeting of New York labor leaders with Cyril Ramaphosa, General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa. • 1985 New York Unions lead movement for first City sanctions bill after members of D.C. 37, Local 371 discover canned South African pineapples at City shelters. • March 1985 LCAA holds national conference on labor in South Africa with representatives from the three union formations involved in unity talks to form a new labor federation. • Summer 1985 LCAA collects 4,000 signatures from local union members in drive demanding release of South African labor leaders Gqweta, Kikkine, Ncgobo and Njikelana charged with high treason. • September 1985 LCAA hosts meeting with NACTU General Secretary Phiroshaw Camay and Geoffrey Schreiner, National Organizer for the Metal and Allied Workers Union (FOSATU). • December 1985 The Congress of South African Trade Unions is formed. LCAA joins the Coalition of Black Trade Unionist to host New York meeting with COSATU treasurer Max Zulu and Geoggrey Vinlane and Bernie Faranoff of the Metal and Allied Workers Union.• Spring 1986 South African workers at the 3M plant in South Africa strike in solidarity with laid-off 3M workers in New Jersey. 1986 New York unions play critical role is passage of Public Law 81, extending sanctions to all companies with direct business operations in South Africa. LCAA lobbies for passage of national sanctions bill, and joins major June 16th demonstration organized by the NY Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council and District 65, UAW. In October, U.S. Congress passes Anti-Apartheid Act over Pres. Reagan’s veto. • April 1988 LCAA organizes rally at District 65 to call for the release of Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers. Program includes speakers from the United Auto Workers, African National Congress, South West Africa Peoples Organization and local New York labor leaders.
New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid
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Used by permission of former members of the New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid.
