Regulate or Ban? What to Do with Labour Brokers
Two main ideas dominated recent parliamentary discussions on labour brokers. These were: must labour brokers be regulated or must broking …
2011
Politics Looms Larger Than Shopfloor: Cosatu’s 10th National Congress
The Congress of South African Trade Unions holds three-yearly national congresses and the resolutions emerging from them are watched with …
Planisa! Gold Miners’ Underground Practices
According to Sizwe Phakathi underground mining relies on being adaptable. Management inefficiencies are left for the ordinary gold miner to …
Outraged Feelings Burst Forth: Mineworkers at Vaal Reefs
This is the second part of a three-part series. In the previous Bulletin Dunbar Moodie described how a spirit of …
New Methods – Imatu Recruitment
Between May 2008 and April 2009 the KwaZulu-Natal region of the Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union, a Fedusa affiliate, …
Neil Aggett: Meaning of His Life Today
In September this year Peter Vale gave the Neil Aggett Memorial Lecture at Kingswood College, Aggett’s former school. In it …
Mining lethal asbestos: The forgotten women
In 2000 a study was conducted on 200 women who formerly worked on South Africa’s asbestos mines. JCA Davies, MR …
Military Unions: Threat to National Security
In August this year soldiers militantly demonstrated at the Union Buildings. Politicians and the public were shocked. But, argues Lindy …
Linked But Unequal Brew: Formal and Informal Beer Market
The apartheid government destroyed the informal beer industry in townships so it could benefit from the sale of liquor in …
Landmark Decision on Palestine: British Trade Union Congress
In September the TUC made a momentous decision to actively campaign against Israel’s treatment of Palestine. Hugh Lanning describes this …