A house divided: The state of the trade union movement in South Africa
Submitted by red jack on Apr 29 2013 05:31
Benjamin Fogel on the attempt by the South African Communist Party to take over the trade union movement in South Africa.
Uprising in the Cape Winelands - self-organised farmworkers reject union attempts to end their strike
Submitted by red jack on Nov 16 2012 07:05
Driving through the Hex River Valley after Wednesday’s chaotic protests feels like entering a ghost town. Yet when one manages to find residents and speak to them, it becomes crystal clear that the farm workers are planning to hold out for their wage demands – and that few of them know anything of the well-publicised promises that they would be back at work this week.
Are the strikes In South Africa good for mining companies?
Submitted by Alasdair on Aug 30 2012 20:00
As the dispute continues in Marikana, and appears to be spreading to both other platinum mines and to more workers at Lonmin, is it worth taking a step back from the immediate actions and considering the broader economic effect of the strikes?
Armageddon at Implat's wildcat strike? Mine eruptions escalate in South Africa
Submitted by loveletters on Feb 22 2012 19:44
22 February 2012. South African miners are in the fifth week of a wildcat strike that has paralysed the Rustenburg mine of Impala Platinum, the biggest producer of platinum in the world. The last few days have seen antagonism erupt into increasingly militant action.
COSATU’s response to the Crisis: an anarcho-syndicalist assessment and alternative
Black Flame co-author Lucien van der Walt on the South African Trade Union Federation.
South African unions call off massive strike
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Jun 28 2007 10:21
Unions have agreed to a government pay offer just 0.5% above inflation, describing it as "fantastic."
South Africa: ‘Massive’ strike spreads on 13th day
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Jun 13 2007 09:12
A nationwide public sector strike by hundreds of thousands of workers has shut down schools, courts and hospitals in a bitter dispute over pay that has seen the army deployed against pickets.
After ten years of GEAR: COSATU, the Zuma trial and the dead end of alliance politics
Submitted by Ed on Feb 19 2007 22:46
General strike in South Africa
Submitted by libcom on May 18 2006 11:00
Hundreds of thousands of workers yesterday (Thursday 18th) supported trade union giant Cosatu’s one-day general strike in protest against job losses.
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