Childcare in the workplace
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250640 , vital:52034
- Description: In this booklet, the Labour Rights for Women (LRW) campaign looks at Childcare in the Workplace in South Africa. Nearly all working parents face the challenge of finding safe, appropriate childcare for their children while they work. In the past, women were traditionally seen as the primary carers of their children, with their work and careers coming second to their roles as mothers. But as the face of the workplace changes, many more women are in fulltime employment. Many more women also work in the informal sector. And many more women are developing their own career paths. In South Africa especially, many more women are also becoming the primary wage earners in their families, and many are also single parents. This means that changes in childcare policy and practice in the workplace are necessary. If parents, especially women, are to be productive members of the workforce whose contribution is taken seriously, they need a functioning system of childcare in the workplace to support them.
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- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250640 , vital:52034
- Description: In this booklet, the Labour Rights for Women (LRW) campaign looks at Childcare in the Workplace in South Africa. Nearly all working parents face the challenge of finding safe, appropriate childcare for their children while they work. In the past, women were traditionally seen as the primary carers of their children, with their work and careers coming second to their roles as mothers. But as the face of the workplace changes, many more women are in fulltime employment. Many more women also work in the informal sector. And many more women are developing their own career paths. In South Africa especially, many more women are also becoming the primary wage earners in their families, and many are also single parents. This means that changes in childcare policy and practice in the workplace are necessary. If parents, especially women, are to be productive members of the workforce whose contribution is taken seriously, they need a functioning system of childcare in the workplace to support them.
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Constitution of COSATU
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154382 , vital:39693
- Description: We the Trade Union representatives here present firmly commit ourselves to a unified democratic South Africa, free of oppression and economic exploitation. We believe that this can only be achieved under the leadership of a united working class. Our history has taught us that to achieve this goal we will have to carry out the following tasks: To organise the unorganised workers and build effective trade unions based on the democratic organisation of workers in the factories, mines, shops, farms and other workplaces. Organise national industrial trade unions, financed and controlled by their worker members through democratically elected committees.
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- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154382 , vital:39693
- Description: We the Trade Union representatives here present firmly commit ourselves to a unified democratic South Africa, free of oppression and economic exploitation. We believe that this can only be achieved under the leadership of a united working class. Our history has taught us that to achieve this goal we will have to carry out the following tasks: To organise the unorganised workers and build effective trade unions based on the democratic organisation of workers in the factories, mines, shops, farms and other workplaces. Organise national industrial trade unions, financed and controlled by their worker members through democratically elected committees.
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News Congress
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135304 , vital:37256
- Description: Impelasonto kaNovember 29 kuya kuDecember 1 yabona ukuphakanyiswa kwefederation yezinyunyana zabasebenzi bezimboni enkulu kunazo zonke emlandweni wabasebenzi baseSouth Africa. ICongress of South African Trade Unions inamalunga akhokha kahle awu-449679 kuzo zonke izimboni ezisemqoka kulelizwe ngaphandle kwemboni yezolimo. Kodwa kulesikhashana esizayo izogqugquzelwa nemboni yezolimo, njengoba uCOSATU athatha isinqumo ekugcotshweni kweCongress sokwelekelela ngezimali ekuququzeleni izimboni zezolimo lezikahulumeni.
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- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135304 , vital:37256
- Description: Impelasonto kaNovember 29 kuya kuDecember 1 yabona ukuphakanyiswa kwefederation yezinyunyana zabasebenzi bezimboni enkulu kunazo zonke emlandweni wabasebenzi baseSouth Africa. ICongress of South African Trade Unions inamalunga akhokha kahle awu-449679 kuzo zonke izimboni ezisemqoka kulelizwe ngaphandle kwemboni yezolimo. Kodwa kulesikhashana esizayo izogqugquzelwa nemboni yezolimo, njengoba uCOSATU athatha isinqumo ekugcotshweni kweCongress sokwelekelela ngezimali ekuququzeleni izimboni zezolimo lezikahulumeni.
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Smash the Labour Relations Act
- Authors: COSATU, NACTU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110322 , vital:33263
- Description: The South African state is facing a serious political crisis. Apartheid policies have been decisively rejected by the majority of citizens. The state is only able to retain power by force; by the declaration of the state of emergency, by detentions, by putting the SADF in the townships and by suppressing all opposition. These measures will eventually be defeated. But the state and the ruling class also face a critical economic crisis. This is linked to the political crisis. The capitalist class is trying to solve the economic crisis by squeezing even more profits out of the working class. To do this the capitalist class needs to keep wages down and to replace more and more workers by machines.
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- Authors: COSATU, NACTU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110322 , vital:33263
- Description: The South African state is facing a serious political crisis. Apartheid policies have been decisively rejected by the majority of citizens. The state is only able to retain power by force; by the declaration of the state of emergency, by detentions, by putting the SADF in the townships and by suppressing all opposition. These measures will eventually be defeated. But the state and the ruling class also face a critical economic crisis. This is linked to the political crisis. The capitalist class is trying to solve the economic crisis by squeezing even more profits out of the working class. To do this the capitalist class needs to keep wages down and to replace more and more workers by machines.
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