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Sactwu
Textile in Cape Town

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Industria House 350 Victoria Road. Salt River. Cape Town. Western Cape. 7925
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Clothing in Cape Town

SACTWU - Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union.

Is the 10th largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and is an affiliate of Industriall (the global manufacturing union federation) Member benefits providing R6 million in funeral and retirement benefits to members and dependents, in 3800 pay-outs a year. Disseminating information and communication technology skills through partnerships with institutes of technology that have seen worker leaders graduate in our Computer School. The new union was the result of mergers of many unions in our industry, over many years. But unity in our industry took a major step forward in 1989, when the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (ACTWUSA) and the Garment and Allied Workers Union (GAWU- SA) came together to form the South African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU). These were the first questions that we had to answer. Solly Sachs remained the general secretary of GWUSA for 44 years, from 1928 until his banning in Most workers employed in the industry at the time were poor white Afrikaner women. Afrikaner garment women workers suffered extreme exploitation: they earned starvation wages and worked long hours. The poor working conditions meant that many of these women were open to the idea of a union. From 1928 to 1932, for example, these women organised more than 100 work-stoppages and strikes, which shook the industry. The Broederbond set about to unite all Afrikaners, irrespective of class. This obviously interfered with the work of GWUSA, which had mainly an Afrikaner membership. The union thrived on benefits and was criticized as being more of a benefit society than a trade union. For example, it provided creches, educational bursaries and housing loans, and later, in 1940, established an unemployment benefit fund for garment workers (which was funded by contributions from employers and workers). In 1942, it established the Clothing Industry Sick Fund. After the settlement, Cape Town employers urged their workers to join the GWU (CP). Cape wages and working conditions remained far worse than that in the Transvaal. It drew its membership mainly from indentured Indian labour that made up the bulk of the workforce in the industry at the time. The Industrial Registrar refused to register both garment and textile workers in the same union. In 1937, the council agreement was extended to cover African workers on the same wages and working conditions as other workers. He was succeeded by his wife, Harriet Bolton, who was general secretary until She was succeeded by Mr M. S. Stanley, who had been an organiser for the union for eighteen years. A working relationship was maintained and African shop stewards continued attending union meetings. It registered in 1936 and organised workers irrespective of race.
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