- Title
- Attitudes and perceptions of retail workers towards trade unions: the case of SACCAWU members in KwaZakhele Shoprite-Checkers
- Creator
- Majola, Ezekiel
- Subject
- Retail trade -- Labor unions -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Labor unions -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth Retail trade -- Employees -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU)
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/31499
- Identifier
- vital:31496
- Description
- The South African trade union movement faces challenges, that are negatively affecting their role and relevance to their members. It is argued that the use of contract workers in the labour market has significantly reduced the bargaining power of the unions, mainly because the unions are finding it difficult to mobilize contract workers and the workers themselves are believed to be reluctant to join trade unions (Mathekga, 2009). This research project investigated and sought to provide an account of the attitudes and perceptions of the retail workers towards their retail trade union in South Africa. South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) is one of the trade unions that is representing these workers in the retail sector and thus also affected by the use of flexible employment arrangements, global work insecurity, and poorly organized labour worldwide. Globally, trade unions are not exempted from the impact of the use flexible labour. Lynch, Pyman, Bailey & Price (2009) pointed out that workers in the European retail sector are employed mainly as contract workers and these workers are rarely involved in trade union activities, consequently the number of unionized workers in the workplace is declining. This context speaks to the changing of attitudes of workers towards their unions. This research study explores the attitudes and perceptions of SACCAWU members towards their union in the retail sector, South Africa. The study was conducted in Port Elizabeth, using in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and observations to ascertain the worker participation and perceptions about their union, SACCAWU. The study seems to confirm most of the labour studies scholars work on disconnection between labour unions and their members, while increasing ‘precarity’ forces workers to stay on unionized despite the negative attitude prevailing.
- Format
- ix, 150 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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