Woolworths. Your quality store?
Woolworths has invested in Ghana at a time when the country is facing a very precarious economic situation and is …
Vol 27 No 5 Oct/Nov 2003
What happens when the blanket comes off?
Many who attend Cosatu’s 8th national congress in September 2003 believed it was inevitable (in view of the upcoming elections)that …
What to do with pension fund surplus?
The Pension Funds Second Amendment Act, 2001, requires that surpluses in retirement funds be distributed to fund stakeholders – employers …
Voluntary testing: for HIV at the workplace
HIV testing in the workplace has been the subject of much debate and a number of court cases. Leslie London …
Transition from below: Forging trade unionism and workplace change in SA
The role of organised labour in the struggle against apartheid is widely acknowledged. Peter Alexander reviews Karl von Holdt’s Transition …
Towards a social accord for jobs
The new generation of policy-makers has high hopes of transforming the economy post 1994. They argued that industrial and labour-market …
The road to and from Cancun
Labour delegates Tanya van Meelis and Tony Ehrenreich recount their time in Cancun and evaluate the role of labour: Were …
The new shopstewards: for or against us
During the early years of trade unionism, shopstewards were the backbone of unions. today, they want to ensure their own …
South African Business in Africa: Good for Development?
Supreme Furnishers workers accused government leaders of letting them down and eating from the same plate with South African investors …
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 …