Wedding bells for Fedusa and Nactu
Hundreds of delegates from Fedusa affiliates will gather on 15 September to debate their future and whether to endorse a …
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What happened at VW?
Kally Forrest explores why the three-week strike against NUMSA took place at VW and concludes that workers learned through their …
Welfare and redistribution whose responsibility is it?
In South Africa, the working class currently carries the major or redistribution. Liv Torres argues that a state-run welfare system …
Western Sahara: Forgotten Occupation
For over 35 years the people of Western Sahara have suffered a brutal occupation. Shawn Hattingh gives the background to …
What are essential services?
When President Jacob Zuma recently said that education was an essential service there was uproar from trade unions that saw …
What happens in Zimbabwe affects us: Union hounds Chinese arms
South Africans have recoiled in shame over recent xenophobic attacks, but we are capable of behaving differently. Azad Essa and …
Waste pickers without frontiers.
Across the world companies and governments greatly benefit from waste pickers’ work. Yet these workers are invisible and looked down …
We are always exposed to violence: interview with a shopsteward
Briefing: By the South African Labour Bulletin.
We Engaged with Foreigners, and They Supported Us: Countering Xenophobia in Khutsong
While research has looked at why xenophobia broke out in certain areas in May 2008 Joshua Kirshner and Comfort Phokela …
We are no longer a fear-filled people
By Karl von Holdt, Labour Research Service, Zolile Mtshelwane