Know your rights! A basic guide for domestic workers in South Africa
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 2010-06
- Subjects: Household employees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa , Household employees -- Employment -- South Africa , Labour contract -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60041 , vital:27725
- Description: The demand for domestic services has increased globally during the last two decades and today domestic workers constitute a large portion of the workforce, especially in developing countries. Yet domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated, and many domestic workers are underpaid and unprotected. This has been recognised by international organisations, such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The struggle of domestic workers has lead to improvements to their rights and conditions in many countries. Yet working conditions and wages remain poor in many countries, including South Africa. This booklet sheds light on this problem. There are 888 000 domestic workers in South Africa, which accounts for 7% of total formal employment (Labour Force Survey, May 2010). The vast majority of these workers do not belong to a trade union and do not partake in collective bargaining or are unaware of their rights to bargain and to join trade unions. The South African Domestic Services and Allied Workers Union (SADSAWU) is a trade union for domestic workers in South Africa and campaigns for the improvement of rights and conditions of domestic workers. It recognises that it is not as powerful as it could be and it would have a bigger influence on the legislating authorities if there were more members which were strongly organised. There are numerous difficulties to organise domestic workers, some are related to the education level of the workers and some lies within the nature of the work (many are live-in workers and therefore have no contact with other domestic workers as a natural part of their work). However, SADSAWU has over many years built up a lot of experience and developed a solid vision to build a strong domestic workers movement, and is therefore well placed to fight these difficulties. This booklet also serves as an organising tool for domestic workers. The aim is to raise awareness of the rights of domestic workers and to encourage workers to organise.
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- Date Issued: 2010-06
The advantages and disadvantages of long-term collective bargaining within the Metal & Engineering Industry and Mining Industry
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 2002-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60190 , vital:27745
- Description: This report highlights the advantages and disadvantages of long-term collective bargaining within the Metal & Engineering and Mining industries. It does not aim to set standards but to provide useful information on the experiences of negotiators bargaining for multi-year agreements. To this end a questionnaire was designed to draw commentary from various role-players within the abovementioned industries on the issue under investigation.
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- Date Issued: 2002-11
HIV/AIDS Manual (project proposal)
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 2000
- Language: English
- Type: instruction , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60075 , vital:27730
- Description: HIV/AIDS Manual. This manual thus aims to contribute to ensuring greater awareness amongst trade union members of the AIDS epidemic and that the issue assumes much greater importance and becomes integral to trade union activities and work, such as, collective bargaining and shop stewards' duties.
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- Date Issued: 2000
Employment Equity Workshop
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 20??
- Language: English
- Type: instruction , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60062 , vital:27729
- Description: Employment Equity Workshop programme. Workshop aims: To assess discrimination and inequality at the workplace; To learn from international experiences of affirmative action as a method for addressing discrimination and inequality; To understand the Employment Equity Act, its strengths and limitations; To assess our own strengths and weaknesses as trade unions in relation to taking forward affirmative action at the workplace; To begin to develop a clear perspective and approach to affirmative action at the workplace; To evaluate the workshop and its materials in order to improve and develop a user friendly workshop pack for trade unionists.
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- Date Issued: 20??
Budget presentation to the Worker's College, May 1996
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 1996-05
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60052 , vital:27726
- Description: Budget presentation to the Worker's College, May 1996
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- Date Issued: 1996-05
Social Responsibility Report For Unity Incorporation
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 1994-11-23
- Subjects: Labour Unions -- South Africa Food & Allied Workers' Union South African Catering, Commercial & Allied Workers' Union Paper Printing & Allied Workers' Union African Clothing & Textile Workers' Union
- Language: English
- Type: Report , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4852 , vital:20736
- Description: A feature of the social responsibility research carried out by the Labour Research Service during the year to September 1994 has been an increased emphasis on the monitoring of companies previously assessed by the board of Unity Inc. This trend is expected to continue as the Community Growth Fund expands and more companies are approved.
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- Date Issued: 1994-11-23
Motor Transport Undertaking Industrial Council: wage analysis for the Transport & General Wokers' Union
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 1987-10-12
- Subjects: Motor Transport Industrial Council (South Africa) Trucking -– South Africa Wages -- Transport workers -- South Africa Collective bargaining -- Transportation -- South Africa Inflation (Finance) -- South Africa Turnover (Business) -- South Africa Transportation -- South Africa -- Finance Profit -- South Africa Labour unions -- South Africa South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union Industrial Council for the Motor Transport Undertaking (South Africa)
- Language: English
- Type: Report , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3060 , vital:20356
- Description: The industrial council agreement for Motor Transport Undertaking (Goods) in the Transvaal will be in force until 1990. Wages are negotiated annually, for implementation in January, but a compulsory arbitration provision comes into effect if there is a deadlock. This document is prepared to assist the Transport & General Workers Union in providing factual information to the arbitrator to back up the demand for a substantial wage increase. The union has rejected a final offer from the employers of an eight and a half percent increase in January 1988. Unfortunately, we have not received the wage demands of the union, so our report is not as focused as it should be.
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- Date Issued: 1987-10-12
Motor Transport Undertaking Industrial Council: wage analysis for the Transport & General Wokers' Union
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 1987-10-12
- Subjects: Motor Transport Industrial Council (South Africa) Trucking -- South Africa Wages -- Transport workers -- South Africa Collective bargaining -- Transportation -- South Africa Inflation (Finance) -- South Africa Turnover (Business) -- South Africa Transportation -- South Africa -- Finance Profit -- South Africa Labour unions -- South Africa South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union Industrial Council for the Motor Transport Undertaking (South Africa)
- Language: English
- Type: Report , Text
- Identifier: vital:2155 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2155
- Description: The industrial council agreement for Motor Transport Undertaking (Goods) in the Transvaal will be in force until 1990. Wages are negotiated annually, for implementation in January, but a compulsory arbitration provision comes into effect if there is a deadlock. This document is prepared to assist the Transport & General Workers Union in providing factual information to the arbitrator to back up the demand for a substantial wage increase. The union has rejected a final offer from the employers of an eight and a half percent increase in January 1988. Unfortunately, we have not received the wage demands of the union, so our report is not as focused as it should be.
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- Date Issued: 1987-10-12
Associated Manganese Mines of SA Ltd: Bargaining Report for the National Union of Mineworkers, 19 August 1987
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 1987-08-19
- Subjects: Associated Manganese Mines of South Africa Ltd. -- Finance Manganese mines and mining -- South Africa Wages -- Mineral industries -- South Africa Collective bargaining -- Mines and Mining -- South Africa Inflation (Finance) -- South Africa Turnover (Business) -- South Africa Profit -- South Africa Labour unions -- South Africa National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa) Mineral industries -- South Africa -- Finance
- Language: English
- Type: Report , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2947 , vital:20345
- Description: The Associated Manganese Mines of SA Ltd (called Assmang in this report) mine manganese and iron in the Northern Cape. This report is to assist the union in the first ever wage negotiations with this company. The union has 800 members in the mines at Black Rock, Gloria, Beeshoek and Kururnan. No information is presently available on the current wage rates for the workers. They ordinarily work a 48 hour, 5 day week at 9.6 hours per day. In 1986 a very small wage rise was given. Negotiations will begin on Monday 24 August for wages for the year July 1987 to July 1988.
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- Date Issued: 1987-08-19