African Activist Archive

Contents: HISTORY OF THE BLACK UNIONS • LABOR LEGISLATION • The Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act • Labor Relations Act • GROWTH OF BLACK UNIONS • STRIKES • Meat Workers • Volkswagen Workers Win • Johannesburg City Workers • PROBLEMS BLACK UNIONS FACE • PARALLEL UNIONS • TRADE UNION FEDERATIONS • Federation of South African Trade Unions • Confederation of Unions of South Africa • MAJOR UNIONS • South African Allied Workers Union • General Workers Union • THE FUTURE • New Crackdown on Unions • Footnotes • Pamphlet sent out in a mailing with a cover letter and an order form New From THE AFRICA FUND. The mailing discusses General Motors (GM), skilled and semiskilled workers, Bantustans, homelands, the Commercial Workers Union, industrial unions, the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Labour Relations Act of 1981, Fannie Botha, the Johannesburg municipal strike in July 1980, Table Bay Cold Storage, the Western Province General Workers Union, deported, the Transkei, the UAW (United Automobile, Rubber and Allied Workers Union) , barricades, Uitenhage, black townships, negotiations, single sex hostiles, the Black Municipal Workers Union, migrant workers, Joseph Mavi, the Sabotage Act, Tozamile Botha(Thozamile Botha), the Ford Cortina plant in Port Elizabeth, "Coloured" workers, black workers, the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA), General Secretary Arthur Grobbelaar, Lucy Mvubelo, the National Union of Clothing Workers, the white Garment Workers Union, the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), the Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act, the Confederation of Unions of South Africa (CUSA), the South African Chemical Workers Union, the Laundry Cleaning and Dyeing Workers Union, the African Food and Canning Workers Union, the General and Allied Workers Union, the Black Media Workers Association, the General Workers Union, the Western Province General Workers Union, the Black Municipal Workers Union, the Motors Assemblies and Components Workers Union, the South African Allied Workers Union (SAAWU), political activity, the black community, Bamgunzi Sifingo, South African Chlorides, the South Africa Security Police, the Ciskei authorities, consumer boycotts of companies whose workers are on strike, Neil Aggett, the Terrorism Act, incommunicado detention in solitary confinement without charge or trial, security police headquarters, the massive protest against Neil Aggett's death, the white minority regime, apartheid, and divestment.

African Activist Archive

Black Unions in South Africa

Southern Africa Perspectives

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