Worker councillors in Witbank: New ways to fight for the Living Wage
Briefing by Karl von Holdt
Vol 20 No 1 Feb 1996
When the rain comes, it falls for everybody
Ian Macun and Sakhela Buhlungu spoke to Gwede Mantashe, assisting general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and …
Unions at the crossroads: Can they make the transition?
Jeremy Baskin takes a look at union trends and industrial relations developments in South Africa.
The people’s mayor
Kally Forrest talks to Levy Mamabolo, NUMSA chair of the shopstewards committee at Bosch, who was elected the first black …
The nurses’ strike Product of a messy bargaining process
Kally Forrest continues the debate on the nurses’ strike in August/September last year. This article is based on a discussion …
The challenge of unemployment and inequality in South Africa
Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings discuss the challenge of unemployment and argue that rather than raising the incomes of those …
Strikes and lockouts in the new LRA
Debates on the new LRA have tended to focus almost exclusively on new issues like the workplace forums. However, there …
Solidaristic wage policy : From Sweden to South Africa?
Karl von Holdt outlines the history and current contradictions of the Solidaristic wage policy of the Swedish LO. He argues …
Promoting the Human Development Enterprise in South Africa
In this article Guy Standing suggests that an award scheme could be one way of promoting exemplary practices in firms. …
NPI addresses productivity issues in South Africa
In our first column for 1996, the NPI gives readers a brief background to the organisation. In future columns we …