Browsing All posts tagged under »trade unions«

The need to remember history — & plan political homes

November 28, 2013

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One element lacking in the current debates about what is going on in Cosatu is any sense of recent history. Because there is nothing really new in the current spate of political bloodletting, in the bitterness and the backstabbing. The rationale behind the suspension of Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and the resignation this week […]

Economic apartheid & the builders of the world city

November 7, 2013

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Christmas is coming to a world city so it is perhaps time to ask who built it, who is losing out, who is getting fat — and how and why this happens.

In a changed world unions should ditch dogma

October 31, 2013

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Trade unions have the potential to play a vital role in building a better future for all. But they will have to go back to first principles and accept that dogma is anathema.

SA ‘beacon of hope’ still flickers faintly

October 25, 2013

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The moral high ground bequeathed to Suth Africa and its post-apartheid government by the global struggle against apartheid, has also all but evaporated, but faint hope still remains.

Very little ‘sunshine’ for workers

October 4, 2013

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Following a proposal from the SABC that South Africa’s national broadcaster should present 70% “sunshine news”, it seemed appropriate to look at this from a wider — and working class — viewpoint, writes Terry Bell

The worry that is Wonga

September 20, 2013

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There are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded in the actions of the legal loan sharks and in reactions to their preying of the most vulnerable sectors of society.

A world of fragmentation, infighting — & hope

September 13, 2013

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The global economic crisis continues, with responses leading to fragmentation, infighting — and expressions of hope. Perhaps as educationalist Michael Rosen says: "It's early days...there are possibilities..."

Clearing up some of the SA ‘strike season’ murk

September 6, 2013

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In the face of double-digit wage demands, strikes and strike threats, even more murk than usual seems to surround both sides of the employer/employee divide at a time when clarity is badly needed.