Browsing All posts tagged under »labour«

What SA shop stewards really think

August 30, 2013

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Critical elements of a long-awaited survey of the attitudes of Cosatu shop stewards are finally available — and they provide much food for analysis and thought.

Democracy needs labour unity

August 23, 2013

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Unless trade unions go back to basics, back to democratic control, to accountable and recallable union leaders the immediate future for South Africa's labour movement and for the country’s fledgling democracy could be bleak.

Marikana: a wake-up call still ignored

August 15, 2013

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The Marikana massacre was a wake-up call to every concerned citizen to consider the causes of the tragedy in order to be able to say, with hope: Never again.

Why Amcu baulks

July 14, 2013

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Amcu negotiators are not being pig-headed in not signing peace deals. They have a rank and file to answer to.

Need to confront poisonous roots of the past

July 12, 2013

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The poisonous roots of Marikana go back at least 15 years — and must be confronted if anything is to change.

Pay rises, policy alternatives & regime change

July 4, 2013

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The labour movement has a number of policy alternatives that deserve serious consideration.

Time to learn from Thatcherism & its origins

April 12, 2013

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From a trade union viewpoint, Margaret Thatcher will never be mourned. But the legacy, dubbed “Thatcherism”, lives on, in South Africa and elsewhere. We ignore it or blindly laud it at our peril

Manipulating the causes of the poor

March 22, 2013

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The causes of South Africa’s poor and dispossessed continue to be manipulated by politicians and unscrupulous individuals bent on accumulating power, personal wealth or both.