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COSATU Co-ops - Workers Build Democratic Workplaces

- COSATU, NUMSA

Authors: COSATU, NUMSA
Date: Apr 1989
Subjects: COSATU, NUMSA
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113160 , vital:33724
Description: In February this year the COSATU Education Department called a meeting of co-operative projects linked to the COSATU affiliates. At this meeting were comrades from ACTWUSA, NUM, NUMSA, NUWCC, and POTWA. The comrades explained how it came about that their union started co-operatives or started to think about initiating a co-operative project. SAWCO was formed in 1985 after the mass lockout of 960 Sarmcol strikers. 1987 was the year of the miners strike and saw one of the biggest strike waves in the history of the our country. On the mines, the bosses of Anglo fired more than 13 000 workers. More than 3 500 POTWA members were dismissed by the government bosses of the post office. But not all projects started because of mass dismissals through strikes. In 1986 a bulk buying project was formed by union members at the General Motors Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth. They took their initiative back into the union for discussion. Towards the end of 1986 ex-NAAWU was looking at how to use the organised strength of the union to the benefit of members outside the shopfloor. Today, in NUMS A, the union is in the process of establishing a giant consumer co-operative, Siyanda, which means, "we are growing". In 1985 ACTWUSA vowed that it would never accept any retrenchment package from Frame that would result in workers losing jobs. And so in 1988, ACTWUSA negotiated a retrenchment package with the Frame bosses. The agreement said that the Frame company would provide the money to start a factory which would be owned and controlled by the union and which would provide jobs for the retrenched workers.
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Date Issued: Apr 1989

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Newsletter of COSATU and UDF Natal regions - Peace meeting in jeopardy

- COSATU, UDF

Authors: COSATU, UDF
Date: Sep 1989
Subjects: COSATU, UDF
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135425 , vital:37265
Description: COSATU and UDF say, A climate for creating peace is slowly being established. But at the same time, a number of anti-peace forces are working to undermine our efforts. For years the police have been fanning the violence in Natal. In 1987 when peace talks with Inkatha were taking place they detained our leaders - thus sabotaging the peace talks. Throughout South Africa, the state has created and supported vigilante groups aimed at destroying progressive organisations. Now, after all the harm they have caused, they are trying to take credit for the peace that has recently been established in Tshongweni. In Mpumalanga, members of the Special Branch are attempting to hold peace talks with members of our organisations. We say that the police cannot be the agent of lasting peace. Peace will only come about when the organisations which are most affected come together and decide how peace can be enforced. The recent police shootings at Natal University, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and other areas remind us thgt the police are prepared to kill to save apartheid.
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Date Issued: Sep 1989

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NUMSA East Cape Co-op Newsletter

- NUMSA

Authors: NUMSA
Date: July 1989
Subjects: NUMSA
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114105 , vital:33924
Description: In Namibia today the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) says that the organised labour movement must play an active role in helping PLAN fighters and the war refugees, to find somewhere to live and to find work. They say: "All these people are the relatives of us who remained behind. Together we must look at what our needs are in the communities where we live, and find ways of meeting our needs. " We must use the skills of the combatants to help the community and the community in their turn, must welcome all those people back from the war. The organisations of the people, the trade unions and SWAPO, must help in this process." How can the NUNW help all the people returning from the war to find their place in the community? The NUNW says we need to first understand the strengths and weaknesses of the people and the country.
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Date Issued: July 1989

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NUMSA National Auto Shop Stewards Council Update

- NUMSA

Authors: NUMSA
Date: Sep 1989
Subjects: NUMSA
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114126 , vital:33927
Description: During July and August this year, the united mass action of 25 OOO auto workers forced the bosses to negotiate nationally. Large demonstrations of workers demanding national negotiations marched and toyi-toyied through the plants. But auto workers also gave their bosses another strong message. United and strong, marching with large banners and replica AKs, workers were unbanning the ANC and flying high the red flag. Workers demanded the release of Nelson Mandela and all political prisoners. They said all hangings and political trials must stop. Workers demonstrated against the LRA and all other apartheid laws. Workers wanted their bosses to be clear. The bosses must know that the mass defiance campaign in the factory is part i of the struggle of the oppressed and exploited masses. When we are demanding better working conditions today, when we are unbanning our organisations through mass action today, we are demanding at one and the same time, control over every aspect of our lives in the factory and in the townships where we live. Our struggle for freedom is one struggle.
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Date Issued: Sep 1989

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Roy Holland, Insights and Outsights. Cape Town David Philip, 1989. Book Review

- Wylie, Dan

Authors: Wylie, Dan
Date: 1989
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460504 , vital:75943 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_183
Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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Date Issued: 1989

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Wage increases for goods transport workers

- COSATU, TGWU

Authors: COSATU, TGWU
Date: Dec 1989
Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115546 , vital:34156
Description: T&G has been sitting on the Goods Transport Industrial Council in the Transvaal for three years. T&G negotiates with the bosses’ organisation, the Motor Transport Owners Association (MTOA) once a year. About 500 goods transport companies belong to the MTOA and these bosses employ about 16 000 workers. T&G has about 6 000 goods transport members in the Transvaal. So it is important to negotiate a good deal for T&G workers but also for the many workers we have not organised at this point. There are many things that we negotiate around on the council. Here are some of the things we won this year: All goods transport workers who earn the council minimum wage will get a wage increase. Workers who earn below R118 a week will get a 19% increase and workers who earn above R118 will get a 16% increase. So for example, a general worker was getting R84.61 and will now get R100,64 a week. And a heavy duty driver was getting R130,18 and will now get R151. We also won a night out allowance increase. Drivers will get R20,40 a night and general workers R17,60. The sick benefit and holiday pay bonus now goes to all workers in the transport industry in Transvaal and not only to the drivers.
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Date Issued: Dec 1989

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Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter November, 1988

- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)

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

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NUMSA workers build co-operatives

- National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, Nunn, Cedric

Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa , Nunn, Cedric
Date: 1988-06-12
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text , newsletter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105489 , vital:32523
Description: There are two main co-operative activities that are supported by NUMSA. The one is SAWCO in Natal and the other is the project that is starting here in the East Cape. Does NUMSA have a policy on co-operatives? NUMSA in its Central Committee has taken a decision to support co-ops. But NUMSA is still busy thinking of how we can formulate a policy on co-operatives. We are working towards such a policy. So what is NUMSA's aim in giving support to co-ops? In other words, how can organised workers benefit from the support that NUMSA is giving to these co-op activities?.
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Date Issued: 1988-06-12

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Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter May, 1988

- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)

Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
Date: 1988-05
Subjects: Labour unions -- South Africa , Transport workers -- Labour unions -- South Africa
Language: eng
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98181 , vital:31551
Description: In April COSATU held a very important conference - their first Women's Conference. 12 TGWU women went to the conference and took part in the workshops on Women at Work, Women and Health and Safety, Women in the Unions, and Women in the Community. The conference put forward some important and new ideas for unions to act on.
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Date Issued: 1988-05

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Comparison of the blanching activities of Dermovate, Betnovate and Eumovate creams and ointments

- Meyer, Eric, Magnus, Ashley D, Haigh, John M, Kanfer, Isadore

Authors: Meyer, Eric , Magnus, Ashley D , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
Date: 1988
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006315
Description: The human skin blanching assay was used to determine the blanching activities of Dermovate, Betnovate and Eumovate creams and ointments. Dermovate was found to elicit a superior blanching response to Betnovate which in turn elicited a superior blanching response to Eumovate, except in the comparison of Betnovate and Eumovate ointments under occlusion. The importance of employing the correct methodology of the blanching assay is emphasized and the good correlation between the results of this study and clinical trials is indicated.
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Date Issued: 1988

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Potency ranking of two new topical corticosteroid creams containing 0.1% desonide or 0.05% halometasone utilizing the human skin-blanching assay

- Meyer, Eric, Smith, Eric W, Haigh, John M, Kanfer, Isadore

Authors: Meyer, Eric , Smith, Eric W , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
Date: 1988
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6400 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006327
Description: The human blanching assay was used to assess the potency of two new proprietary corticosteroid creams. The blanching abilities of 0.1% desonide cream and 0.05% halometasone cream were evaluated relative to the blanching elicited by 0.05% clobetasol 17-propionate cream, 0.1% betamethasone 17-valerate cream and 0.05% clobetasone 17-butyrate cream. The results of the trial indicated that the 0.1% desonide cream falls into the potent group of topical corticosteroid preparations and the 0.05% halomethasone cream falls into the moderately potent group.
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Date Issued: 1988

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Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter January, 1988

- TGWU

Authors: TGWU
Date: 1988-01
Subjects: Labour unions -- South Africa , Collective bargaining , Collective labour agreements , Transport workers -- Labour unions -- South Africa
Language: eng
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98154 , vital:31548
Description: Drastic changes to Labour Relations Act: the government are trying to clip the wings of the union movement. There is a Labour Relations Amendment Bill in Parliament at the moment. If this bill becomes law this year, the labour movement will be very weak.
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Date Issued: 1988-01

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Iyure ifikile ke ngoku!

- National Union of Mineworkers

Authors: National Union of Mineworkers
Date: 1987-09-09
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: Xhosa
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105109 , vital:32466
Description: Eli lixesha lokuba bonke abasebenzi mgodi babe kumgca ongaphambili kweli dabi lomvuzo ophilisayo. Ugwayimbo lufuneka lube kuzo zonke imayini. Kucace okwekat‘emhlophe ehlungwini okokuba iChamber of Mines ayifuni kusihlawula imivuzo yanelisayo nephucukileyo. Isibonisile okokuba eyona nto iphambili kubo yingeniso yohlohlesabo eli xesha thina sihlupheka. Eyona ndlela iyiyo iseleyo yokunyanzelekisa iChamber of Mines lugwayimbo kuyo yonke imigodi yegolide neyamalahle. Ohlohlesabo sebetshilo okokuba nokuba ngaba singagwayimba abana kuyonyusa imivuzo yethu. Sesisazi kwakhona okokuba sebeqalile ohlohlesabo ukuzilungiselela ukuze balutyumze ugwayimbo lethu. , News strike special August 9, 1987
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Date Issued: 1987-09-09

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Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter November, 1987

- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)

Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
Date: 1987-09
Subjects: Labour unions -- South Africa , Transport workers -- Labour unions -- South Africa
Language: eng
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98254 , vital:31559
Description: On 12 November about 1000 security guards at South African Security Services in Springs went on strike. Workers were angry about the dismissal of 7 workers and management refused to meet the workers. So workers stopped work. Twice management told workers to report to work. Both times the bosses did not send transport. Then the bosses told workers to come to the head office. Workers went, the police arrived and arrested 10 shop stewards. The bosses tried to get workers to say that TGWU forced workers to strike. The director even tortured a shop steward with electric shocks to force him to sign a statement. The shop steward has laid a charge against the director for assault. The strike lasted 7 days then management took some workers back. Other workers were dismissed. We are now taking these union bashing bosses to the Industrial Court to reinstate workers.
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Date Issued: 1987-09

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Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter September, 1987

- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)

Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
Date: 1987-09
Subjects: Labour unions -- South Africa , Transport workers -- Labour unions -- South Africa
Language: eng
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98243 , vital:31558
Description: On 31 July the Town Clerk of Diepmeadow Council (Soweto) told 12 meter readers that a private company was taking over the meter reading section of the council. So meter readers were no longer employed by the council. At once 1,200 TGWU council workers went on strike and demanded the reinstatement of the 12 workers. The 12 workers were reinstated but the workers continued the strike demanding the dismissal of Noel Gaum, the Town Clerk. The council agreed to meet about Gaum so workers returned to work. But after the meeting Gaum was not dismissed. So workers struck for 2 more days. Workers, clerks, township managers and social workers were united in calling for Gaum's dismissal. Gaum worked before as town clerk in Lekoa and Tumahole Councils and was not liked. Diepmeadow workers outlined 37 grievances against Gaum. Some of these grievances are that Gaum is rascist, that he is rude to workers, that he never consults workers on anything, and that when the council was upgraded to a city council Gaum got a 20% salary increase but workers did not. In response to worker demands the Diepmeadow Council dismissed Gaum and gave workers the 20% increase they demanded.
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Date Issued: 1987-09

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Transport and General Workers Union: Newsletter June, 1987

- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)

Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
Date: 1987-06
Subjects: Labour unions -- South Africa , Transport workers -- Labour unions -- South Africa
Language: eng
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98196 , vital:31552
Description: Impala Coach Tours: TGWU declared a dispute with Impala Coach Tours which runs buses from Jan Smuts Airport, and to Sun City. The dispute concerns Impala's refusal to recognise the union and the dismissal of a worker, Mr Ernest Nelwamando. Ernest was dismissed after a company mechanic hit him with an iron bar when Ernest reported that his bus had faulty gears. Ernest was off work for 3 days. When he returned to work he was hit again by the director's son and then dismissed. TGWU applied for a Conciliation Board, and referred the disputes to the Industrial Court. Workers have reported the company to the Dept, of Manpower as workers the company is operating outside the law around wages and other conditions of work.
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Date Issued: 1987-06

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