Challenges facing women workers locally and internationally
- Authors: Mbude, Lungi
- Date: 1997-12-05
- Subjects: Women employees -- South Africa , Woman, Black -- Employment -- South Africa , Quality of life , Job satisfaction -- South Africa , Organisational behaviour -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/111118 , vital:33382
- Description: The majority of women in the world - women workers - have not only suffered from exploitation by the bosses, they also face oppression as women in society and from their husbands and partners at home. According to the 1996 Human Development Report, of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty in the world, 70% are women. Twice as many women as men cannot read or write, and girls are 60% of the 130 million children who have no access to primary education. Women produce half of the world’s food but own around 1% of the world’s land. The number of rural women living in poverty has increased by 50% in the last twenty years, compared to 3% for men. Women also represent the highest percentage of the unemployed. The problems of women workers are not personal, individual problems. They are social problems which women suffer as members of this society, as workers and as women. So, if we want to address and work towards solving women workers’ problems, we have to tackle them as part of the problems of the whole society.
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- Date Issued: 1997-12-05
Organiser update: Food & Allied Workers Union Information & Research Department: number 3, vol. 1
- Authors: Food and Allied Workers Union
- Date: 1990-06
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112426 , vital:33579
- Description: Industrial and mining group Barlow Rand was again selected the SA's top company in the annual Financial Mail Top 100 companies survey. Barlows received top position in rating in the rankings of total assets, sales, profit and market capital at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Barlows Received net profit of Rl,06 billion in the year to September 1989 from the sales of R26,4 billion. Ranked by sales CG Smith received the second position, SAB came third and CG Smith Food on the fourth position. Following is the ranking of the too ten companies on the JSE, ranked by sales, net profit and assets.
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- Date Issued: 1990-06
Transport and General Workers Union: Bi-Annual Congress 1991: Financial Progress Report from Dec 1989-May 1991
- Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Date: 1991-05
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: eng
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103038 , vital:32203
- Description: In reviewing the 1990 financial year for TGWU (1 Jan 1990 - 31 Dec 1990) it is clear that the union was in an unstable financial position. The income from subscriptions was forever fluctuating. In most cases expenditure for this period exceeded the income from subscriptions. Our bank balance was, from time to time, in an overdraft situation. The union couldn’t be self-sufficient—and as a result, relied on foreign funding. This report will deal with both the income and expenditure for the said financial period.
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- Date Issued: 1991-05