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What SA shop stewards really think
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
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
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.
Labour backs child beating ban
August 2, 2013
South Africa, steeped for generations in the violent resolution of disputes, is about to take a step to get to the roots of the problem.
Why Amcu baulks
July 14, 2013
Amcu negotiators are not being pig-headed in not signing peace deals. They have a rank and file to answer to.
Pay rises, policy alternatives & regime change
July 4, 2013
The labour movement has a number of policy alternatives that deserve serious consideration.
Economic war in South Africa
June 14, 2013
The “agrarian transformation”, announced on June 12 by two major SA trade unions extended well beyond farm lands and remote rural areas. It can be summarised by the famous 1992 quote by US President Bill Clinton: “(It’s) the economy, stupid.”
Why double digit pay rises are justified
June 6, 2013
The annual wage bargaining season — erroneously labelled the “strike season” — is upon us. But this does not mean a pending strike wave: most negotiations — as happens every year — will be concluded without any industrial disruption.
Terry Bell Writes 
August 30, 2013
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