The security industry: privatisation and organisation
The private security industry is fragmented and growing. Sabata Nakanyane outlines the impact this has on unionisation in the sector …
In the unions
The September commission report
COSATU’s September Commission was mandated to reflect critically on whether COSATU’s strategies and policies were appropriate to the new conditions …
The September Commission: confronting the future
COSATU’s September Commission proposes a programme of social unionism to enable the federation to drive social and economic transformation. Deanne …
The September commission: shaping congress debates, stimulating activism
The September Commission report provides an in-depth assessment of COSATU strategies and organisational capacity. Karl von Holdt examines the COSATU …
The September scenarios
The September Commission has drawn up three scenarios to explore the challenges facing labour and to provoke discussion in COSATU …
The shopsteward who want to go to parliament
Joseph Mthembu considers himself a people’s leader. A full-time PPWAWU shopsteward at PG Bison, he has repeatedly been offered a …
The silence is deafening
Andrea Meeson argues that while unions wish to address HIV/AIDS they are not responding quickly enough. Attachments The silience …
The right to picket facilities: a Workers’ Charter demands
In our last edition, Ebrahim Patel, SACTWU education officer, described the effects of picketing on the Hextex strike. In this …
The Role of Intellectuals in trade unions
A discussion between Jabu Gwala: Recently elected general secretary of SACTWU, Jabu started his working life in the garden of …