Smiling and Waving: Petyrol Attendants’ Use of Emotional Labour
What lies behind the friendly face of a petrol attendant? David du Toit unpacks the management marketing science behind garage …
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Shop stewardship
Although being a shop steward is a voluntary position that you are elected into by members of your union, there …
Shop Workers International Solidarity: First-Ever Global Agreement
After prolonged difficult negotiations Shoprite Checkers and an international alliance of trade unions signed the first-ever global agreement with an …
Simba Quix
Briefings/Reports: By South African Labour Bulletin Correspondent.
Shopfloor democracy: health workers in the Eastern Cape
The COSATU public sector unions are growing at a rapid rate in the Eastern Cape. A recent survey undertaken by …
Sipho Kubheka, General secretary of PPWAWU
Sipho Kubheka, general secretary of the Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers’ Union (PPWAWU) talks to Snuki Zikalala.
Shoprite takes a casual approach
Shoprite appears to be riding out the Zimbabwe storms after setting up operations in 2000 in Bulawayo. Unsurprisingly there are …
Shoprite-Maputo. a different ‘Renaissance’ for workers
Darlene Miller argues that Shoprite employees in Maputo Mozambique occupy a contradictory location. On the one hand they are a …
Shoprite/Checkcers strike: Workers, not permanents or casuals
In labour circles people often express dismay at the decrease in worker solidarity in comparison to the 1980s. A strike …