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Thabo Matsose, Second Deputy President. Website. SAFTU.org.za. The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 2017, and is the second largest of the country's main trade union confederations, with 21 affiliated trade unions organising 800,000 workers. [1]
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) was a national trade union federation of workers representing workers in South Africa.. The federation was founded in 1951, as a split from the South African Trades and Labour Council by right-wing unions which accepted apartheid and did not approve of black workers being given a role in governing trade unions.
The federation was formed at a congress over the weekend of 14–15 April 1979 in Hammanskraal and officially launched five days later on 20 April. [1] [2] Its roots lay in the unions which had emerged from the spontaneous 1973 strike wave by black workers in Durban and Pinetown as part of the "Durban Moment", [3] and which had since been part of the Trade Union Advisory Co-ordinating Council ...
A Transport National Organising Committee was established in May 1958. SACTU organised a campaign for a national minimum wage of £1 (R2) a day in 1957 with the South African Railways and Harbours Union as a central focus. In 1961, it organised two major strikes in Durban, one at the Lion Match Company, and one at the King George V Hospital ...
A COSATU organised protest in Cape Town calling for an end to state capture and for the prosecution of those involved in the administration of President Jacob Zuma. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU or Cosatu) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 1985 and is the largest of the country's three main ...
The union was founded in October 1990, when the National Education Union of South Africa merged with the Progressive Teachers' Union, the Mamelodi Teachers' Union, the Progressive Teachers' League, the Western Cape Teachers' Union and the East London Progressive Teachers' Union. In 1992, it affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade ...
In 1994, the federation affiliated to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the first post-apartheid South African union to do so, and it remains affiliated to its successor, the International Trade Union Confederation. [2] In 2006, the federation began negotiating a merger with the rival Federation of Unions of South ...
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa.SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to ...