What is the main purpose of COSATU?

What is the main purpose of COSATU?

COSATU’s main goal is to improve the circumstances of working people. It encourages workers to join unions. COSATU supports peaceful democracy and rejects discrimination. Members of COSATU believe that workers should control the leadership of the group.

Why was COSATU established?

COSATU was launched in December 1985 after four years of unity talks between unions opposed to apartheid and committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. At our launch we represented less than half a million workers organised in 33 unions.

What are COSATU policies?

Aims and Objectives of the COSATU Gender Policy The aims and objectives of the Gender Policy are: • To work towards the elimination of patriarchy; and to promote equity and equality between women and men in the Federation, the workplace and in society, by taking up women-focused and gender-based campaigns, and by …

Who started COSATU?

Federation of South African Tra…SA Allied Workers’ Union
Congress of South African Trade Unions/Founders

What is the brief history of COSATU?

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was launched on 1 December 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. As a federation, it brought together many of the unions formed after the wave of strikes at the beginning of 1973 which marked a renewal of trade union activity after a decade-long lull.

What COSATU means?

Congress of South Africa Trade Unions
/ (ˌkəʊˈzɑːtuː) / n acronym for. Congress of South Africa Trade Unions.

Who is part of COSATU?

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) affiliated unions, namely the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), the Police Prisons and Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) and the Chemical Energy Print Paper and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU) will be …

Which unions fall under COSATU?

This trade union federation was formed on 30 November 1985 after more than four years of negotiations between, among others, the Council of Unions of South Africa (Cusa), the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), the Azanian Congress of Trade Unions (Azactu) and the SA Allied Workers’ Union (Saawu).

Is satawu under COSATU?

SATAWU is an affiliate of the COSATU and the International Transport Workers’ Federation.

Which unions fall under Cosatu?

Who can join Cosatu?

Must be 18 to 59 years of age.

Which unions are under Cosatu?

What is the history of COSATU?

Jay Naidoo at the launch of COSATU, Durban, South Africa, 1985. Photograph by Paul Weinberg / South © www.africamedia.com The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was launched on 1 December 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid.

What happened at the 1989 COSATU Congress in South Africa?

On 12 July 1989 Cosatu held its third congress at the Nasrec hall on the outskirts of Soweto. Delegates openly exhibited the symbols of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe and the South African Communist Party. Sydney Mufamadi read out an address by the ANC’s Harry Gwala, who was unable to attend.

Was COSATU banned in SA?

Although Cosatu was not banned, it was prohibited from engaging in political activity. To assess the effects of the bannings and the Labour Relations Amendment Bill, Cosatu held a special congress on 14 May 1988.

What happened at COSATU’s July meeting?

Cosatu was prohibited from meeting outdoors, and other restrictions disrupted normal union processes – with the result that even business began complaining to the government that with union leaders in prison they were forced to negotiate with ‘mobs’. Cosatu held a special meeting of its Central Executive Committee (CEC) on 1 July.