Flogging a dying horse?: COSATU and the alliance
Sakhela Buhlungu offers a fresh perspective on the debate around the tripartite alliance.
In the unions
Focus of FOSATU
By Phil Bonner.
For defensive unionism and socialism
SAMWU general secretary Roger Ronnie argues that social contracts and co-determination cannot change the nature of capitalism. COSATU needs to …
Fighting marginalisation can COSATU rely on the alliance?
Roger Southall analyses the state of relations in the tripartite alliance and proposes ways for COSATU to fight marginalisation. …
Fighting on two front
Joyce Pekani, newly elected first vice-president of CWIU, talks to Malcolm Ray and William Matlala.
Financial sector: SASBO vs SACCAWU
SASBO’s decision to bring its 75 000 members in the financial sector into COSATU seems like a major coup for …
FEDUSA and COSATU different unionism or different tactics?
Etienne Vlok, using the fight for job creation, characterises the different types of unionism practised by COSATU and FEDUSA. …
Fedusa becoming the rainbow federation
Fedusa’s third national congress, held in September, revealed a trade union federation on the move to becoming a truly multiracial …
Fedusa mourns Madiba
In a statement released after the death of Nelson Mandela the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) said it was saddened …
Fees must fall but wages must rise
With solidarity from the student Fees Must Fall movement in 2015 and 2016, outsourced general workers at the University of …