- Title
- How Fidelity Guards live!
- Creator
- COSATU, TGWU
- Subject
- COSATU, TGWU
- Date Issued
- Apr 1990
- Date
- Apr 1990
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115569
- Identifier
- vital:34178
- Description
- UNTIL last month Fidelity Guards (FG) was owned by a very big transport company, the Rennies Group. FG workers live in an old mine hostel. This is how this rich company housed its workers. T&G NEWS went to the West Rand Fidelity Guards Hostel. 325 men workers live in this hostel. These workers come from many places like Transkei, Pietersburg, Qwa Qwa and Gazankulu. Their families cannot live with them in the hostel because there is no place for famines to stay. And women and children cannot come inside the hostel. No privacy The hostel was built early in the 1900s. It is dirty, old, broken down, smells bad, and everywhere flies buzz around. The hostel is far from shops and transport is difficult. There are no phones to speak to families and at Christmas often the FG office does not deliver telegrammes. In each room 16 workers live and sleep. Both day and night shift workers are in one room. This means there is always noise. For example, if a worker is off-duty he brings friends into the room to drink and talk. This wakes up other sleeping workers.
- Format
- 4 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
- Rights
- No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher
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