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NUMSA Western Cape Gender Workshop, 13-15 November 1998 Cape Manor Hotel, Sea Point

Report back from Workers College School for Trade Union Women, 20-30 October 1998

NUMSA Gender Workshop

  • Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa , International Labour Resource and Information Group (ILRIG)
  • Date: 1998-07-20
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/104624 , vital:32410
  • Description: Objectives: To develop an understanding of the current state of the world economy and its impact on women for the participants. To deepen the understanding of the South African economy in the context of globalisation. To develop an understanding of labour legislation in South Africa in the context of globalisation. To highlight the strengths and weaknesses of labour legislation for the labour movement and women workers in particular. To show how legislation can be used to advance the gains won by the labour movement. To help build capacity of women within the union movement to deal with challenges of globalisation. , Facilitated by: International Labour Resource and Information Group (ILRIG)
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  • Date Issued: 1998-07-20

Successes and challenges of the NUMSA Gender Committee

  • Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
  • Date: 1998
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:32406
  • Description: This session will try to cover policies adopted at the Congress and Central committee and will be divided in the following sections: collective bargaining, campaigns, gender structures/coordination, education, recommendations for discussion.
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  • Date Issued: 1998

NUMSA workshop on disclosure, 12 October 1995

  • Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
  • Date: 1995-10-12
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/104871 , vital:32439
  • Description: Facilitator introduces him/herself first and the organisation, Turp. Just a brief background of Turp (very brief even if the group is familiar with this). You choose how you want to introduce yourself. You could want to give a bit of a background about yourself. I will have a separate illustration on newsprint, showing what I have done since birth up to now! One could recite that if they like. Group introduction: I propose a game be played, that will have everybody participating. The game is a "picnic game". You say to them we are a happy group who have just decided to go out on a picnic. So each and everyone of us has something to share with us all at the picnic. This must start with the first letter of your name. You (as facilitator) start by saying "for this event I will bring Aloe juice, for keeping healthy skins, because my name is Alfred". The next cde then say the same thing starting from me, the next also saying the same thing, until the last one. Then to see if you can still remember what they said you say it all. Rules: Cdes are not allowed to write down anything here, you could be helped with names and items forgotten during the game. Take a minute discussing how they felt about the whole exercise? You can mention the objectives of the w/shop at this stage from your understanding of the brief. You may say something about the participatory approach used in designing and presentation of this w/shop (methods used in Turp) as we believe that cdes have gone through a lot of experiences in their worklife and know the subject.
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  • Date Issued: 1995-10-12

National Economic Development and Labour Council

NUMSA Western Cape Voter Education Programme, 4 September 1993

  • Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
  • Date: 1993-09-04
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/104439 , vital:32385
  • Description: This Congress resolves that: That the Central Committee decision in regard to membership of political parties be adopted by this congress. That Numsa as an organisation would encourage its members to support the ANC in the coming elections. Cosatu should remain independent of the political parties or government both now and in the post-apartheid State. The future of the Alliance will be decided by the Alliance partners themselves. Cosatu must intensify efforts to strengthen its structures and develop its leadership in order to ensure it has a strong support base. The workings of the Alliance need to be improved by strengthening the local and regional Alliance structures so that decisions can be taken involving members and lower structures and not only a top down process of decision making. The Alliance should establish a report back process and establish a mandating process. The reportback should start at a national level and go down to all levels. The mandating process should start from bottom structures to the national level. This process should be done within a specific time period. Numsa should conduct regular discussions Locally, Regionally and Nationally wherein positions pertaining to the political negotiations should be adopted. These positions should reflect the interests of our members and through Cosatu we should influence the positions of the Alliance.
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  • Date Issued: 1993-09-04

NUMSA: 4th National Congress July 1993

  • Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
  • Date: 1993-09
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/104328 , vital:32364
  • Description: NUMSA held its Fourth National Congress in Johannesburg, from July, 1 - 4,1993. There were 773 delegates present, representing all our 11 regions. Delegates elected new office bearers until the next Congress in three years time.
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  • Date Issued: 1993-09

SACCAWU national organising and bargaining conference 19-21 March 1993: Catholic Renewal Centre Kensington, Johannesburg

  • Authors: South African Commercial, Catering, and Allied Workers Union
  • Date: 1993-03-19/21
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103509 , vital:32253
  • Description: The problems surrounding SACCAWU'S wages are numerous. On analysis, large disparities are revealed. A clear guide-line in the form of a wage policy is needed. This report contains the findings of research into the problems with wages in the hotel and retail sectors of the economy. All wages used in this report are drawn from AWARD, the Labour Research Service's Actual Wage Rates Database.
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  • Date Issued: 1993-03-19/21

Transport and General Workers Union: bi-annual congress 24-26 May 1991, Johannesburg: progress report Dec 1989-May 1991

  • Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
  • Date: 1991-05-24/26
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103294 , vital:32230
  • Description: We have entered the period of the 90's in our poitical, economic and social lives. We are facing the challenge of transfer of power into the hands of the people. The working class is part of the challenge that everyone will have to meet which is striving for a National Democratic Revolution. The working class must also shape political content by advancing its own class perspective through waging class struggle. TGWU is part of the broader liberation forces in South Africa. The political and economic crisis which we face challenges us to develop strategies with more determination and commitment than ever. In order to achieve what we stand for, it becomes an urgent necessity to look at ourselves openly and honestly and assess what we have done and achieved in the last sixteen months.
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  • Date Issued: 1991-05-24/26

Transport and General Workers Union: Bi-Annual Congress 1991: Financial Progress Report from Dec 1989-May 1991

  • Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
  • Date: 1991-05
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103038 , vital:32203
  • Description: In reviewing the 1990 financial year for TGWU (1 Jan 1990 - 31 Dec 1990) it is clear that the union was in an unstable financial position. The income from subscriptions was forever fluctuating. In most cases expenditure for this period exceeded the income from subscriptions. Our bank balance was, from time to time, in an overdraft situation. The union couldn’t be self-sufficient—and as a result, relied on foreign funding. This report will deal with both the income and expenditure for the said financial period.
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  • Date Issued: 1991-05

Masisebenzisane = Let us work together

Transport and General Workers Union: Congress 1-3 December 1989, Pietermaritzburg: Progress report

  • Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
  • Date: 1989-12
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102999 , vital:32199
  • Description: The last eighteen months have seen tremendous growth in Transport and General Workers Union. Numerically the union has grown from 26 000 signed up members to over 40 000 in the period under review. But it is not only in numbers that TGWU has grown. The period has been one in which new structures of the union have been built, and where new organisational direction has been sought in all sectors. The period has been one during which for the first time in four years, the union has not had to divert its attention to putting into effect complex mergers and transfers of membership. It has also of course been a period charged by major national political developments - from the passing of the Labour Relations Amendment Act in September 1988, to the release of seven ANC leaders from Robben Island in October of this year.
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  • Date Issued: 1989-12

Transport and General Workers Union: Aid Service Newsletter November, 1989

  • Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
  • Date: 1989-11
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102929 , vital:32190
  • Description: A weekend Advice Office Labour Training Course was held at the Cape Town Trade Union Library at the end of September. It was a shortened version of the annual training course for advice office workers held in March and April, and was organised for the benefit of new recruits to the Aid Service. The course was attended by a number of T&GWU Aid Service people from the Athlone and Stellenbosch offices, community advice office workers, and trade union office staff. In all about 25 people attended on both days. The course was designed to give basic information on trade unions and industrial relations, as well as interviewing skills and practical guides to unemployment insurance, worker's compensation and pensions.
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  • Date Issued: 1989-11

Transport and General Workers Union: congress report financial progress report for period July 1988 to November 1989

  • Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
  • Date: 1989-07
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103428 , vital:32245
  • Description: In reviewing the developments in T&G finances over the past eighteen months, we can safely say that T&G finances have certainly stabilized over the period. However, in case we get too excited at this news, a note of caution. While our income from subscriptions has steadily improved, due mainly to the Congress ’88 increase in rate (from R3 to R4); our expenditure has in relation also increased to the point that if we continue with our current expenditure pace of October ’89 and November 89, we will soon return to our previous problem of constant threat of bank overdraft! We are a long way off self-sufficiency and still rely heavily on our overseas funders for assistance in the areas of legal fees and our education programme. This report will focus on both the positive developments in T&G finances over these past eighteen months, as well as the problem areas which we need to seriously tackle from here!
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  • Date Issued: 1989-07

Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter November, 1988

  • Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
  • Date: 1988-11
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102764 , vital:32172
  • Description: In August, 3 Putco TGWU drivers and one unemployed man were sentenced to death in the Supreme Court in Durban. The judge said they were guilty of murdering another bus driver, Shezi, in November 1986. How did all this come about? The crisis started in October 1986. The traffic manager at Durban South Putco depot wanted to discipline a driver who was in an accident. But the manager did not follow the disciplinary procedure so workers lodged a grievance against the manager. The manager did not come to the grievance hearing.
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  • Date Issued: 1988-11

Transport and General Workers Union: Progress report on developments in TGWU during the period August 1987-July 1988

  • Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
  • Date: 1988-08-08
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: eng
  • Type: text , pamphlet
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103255 , vital:32226
  • Description: The past year has been a very dramatic one for TGWU. It has been a year of enormous growth in membership, and at the same time a year where we have had to deal with the traumas of numerous mergers (both into TGWU, and TGWU membership into other unions). We have had to endure the difficulties of being without a physical locality for our head office for three months (after the bomb attack on Cosatu House), and more recently the arson attack on our head office premises. In an attempt to cope with the growth of the union we have developed new structures, and have expanded our staff at all levels. The year has also of course been a very dramatic one for the trade union movement as a whole, and for Cosatu in particular. The two most serious features of this have been the restricting of Cosatu in terms of the State of Emergency (along with 17 other organisations), and the proposed Labour Relations Amendment Bill. TGWU has tried to address these issues with the seriousness and determined opposition that they deserve. As a result, the state has seen fit to clash with our members, as witnessed by the detention (and now trial) of our first vice president, Comrade Alfred Ndlovu, and at least 15 other TGWU memebers over the past year. Nine TGWU members are still suffering in the isolation and evilness of detention.
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  • Date Issued: 1988-08-08

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