- Title
- Profile on CWIU
- Creator
- Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU)
- Subject
- CWIU
- Date Issued
- 1996
- Date
- 1996
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170170
- Identifier
- vital:41864
- Description
- Chemical Workers Industrial Union (GW1U) CW1U wus launched in November 1074 following a wuvo of strikes by workers in Durban, who wero demanding bettor wages. During those dark yours when repression wus at its highest peak, workers hud no hade unions to assist them. In chemical, transport, textile and .paper industries, workers formed trade unions to take their struggle forward. They also formed a tight .federation, the Trade Union Advisory and Co-ordinating Committee (TUACC). At its launch in 1974, CWIU was concentrated in Durban and had just under 1 000 members. In July 1980, a branch was opened in the "old” Transvaal. In building a national union, CWIU merged with Glass and Allied Workers Union (Gawu) in 1982. In the interim, other branches where launched throughout the country, though it was easy task with security cops keeping surveillance on every movement of union officials. To build a stronger united worker-front, CWIU took quantum leap when it merged again with Plastics and Allied Workers Union in 1986.
- Format
- 2 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU)
- 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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