All mineral wealth to workers
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1982 - 1992
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151168 , vital:39035
- Description: Since the formation of our Union the NUM has participated in a number of campaigns ranging from local and union specific to national political campaigns
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- Date Issued: 1982 - 1992
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1982 - 1992
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151168 , vital:39035
- Description: Since the formation of our Union the NUM has participated in a number of campaigns ranging from local and union specific to national political campaigns
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- Date Issued: 1982 - 1992
An investigation commissioned by the National Union of Mineworkers
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: July 1985
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134861 , vital:37212
- Description: The University of the Witwatersrand has a long established relationship with the mining industry. Indeed, its origins go back to the South African School of Mines established in Kimberley in 1896. (1). Since 1917, the Chamber of Mines has given direct grants to the University and its predecessors. In fact, the Chamber remains our largest private donor. Murray has shown in his authoritative study of the early years of the University that there have been occasions in our history when the Chamber has felt that it has not received a satisfactory return upon its massive investment in the University (2). On balance, however, the University can rightly claim to have served the Chamber well over the years. In recent years, the other side of the industry's history and social structure has been a focus of systematic investigation in this University. Here, van Onselen's Chibaro stands out : a pioneering attempt to create historically the social world of the compound in the early years of the mining industry in Southern Rhodesia. In our own Department, Moodie, Bozzoli, and Innes have all contributed to our knowledge of the social structure of mining.
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- Date Issued: July 1985
- Authors: NUM
- Date: July 1985
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134861 , vital:37212
- Description: The University of the Witwatersrand has a long established relationship with the mining industry. Indeed, its origins go back to the South African School of Mines established in Kimberley in 1896. (1). Since 1917, the Chamber of Mines has given direct grants to the University and its predecessors. In fact, the Chamber remains our largest private donor. Murray has shown in his authoritative study of the early years of the University that there have been occasions in our history when the Chamber has felt that it has not received a satisfactory return upon its massive investment in the University (2). On balance, however, the University can rightly claim to have served the Chamber well over the years. In recent years, the other side of the industry's history and social structure has been a focus of systematic investigation in this University. Here, van Onselen's Chibaro stands out : a pioneering attempt to create historically the social world of the compound in the early years of the mining industry in Southern Rhodesia. In our own Department, Moodie, Bozzoli, and Innes have all contributed to our knowledge of the social structure of mining.
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- Date Issued: July 1985
Assessment of the profit sharing schemes
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149616 , vital:38869
- Description: In 1991 and 1992, the NUM accepted basic wage Increases on the gold mines that were far below the annual Inflation rate because of the crisis in the industry. The priority of the union was to preserve employment. But this left the door wide open for rich mines (like Kloof, Elandsrand and Vaal Reefs) to hide behind the low increases that are set in the Chamber negotiations at levels that Freegold, Buffelsfontein and marginal mines can live with. The NUM decided that workers need a way of adding more money onto their wages If the mines can afford to pay more.
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- Date Issued: 1992
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149616 , vital:38869
- Description: In 1991 and 1992, the NUM accepted basic wage Increases on the gold mines that were far below the annual Inflation rate because of the crisis in the industry. The priority of the union was to preserve employment. But this left the door wide open for rich mines (like Kloof, Elandsrand and Vaal Reefs) to hide behind the low increases that are set in the Chamber negotiations at levels that Freegold, Buffelsfontein and marginal mines can live with. The NUM decided that workers need a way of adding more money onto their wages If the mines can afford to pay more.
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- Date Issued: 1992
Central committee - Save Jobs - Protect standards
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: Feb 1993
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149528 , vital:38861
- Description: It is one year since our last Central Committee.During this period much has happened on the international and domestic front. Yugoslavia remains at war, the United States of America has the first democratic President since Carter and millions of people are starving. It is not only in Somalia that people are starving.Right here at home over two million people are fed by poverty relief programmes. Although we thought that democracy was at hand, it has still eluded us in 1992. The Apartheid government still remains firmly entrenched although the negotiations with the African National Congress show some glimmer that the multilateral negotiations will resume shortly, the establishmant of a transitional government and the holding of the first non-racial national democratic elections by the end of 1993 or early 1994. With the violence still not under control we continue to see our people under siege, families broken up and property destroyed. For peace there must be democracy. Apartheid has left incalculable damage and a legacy that will have to be addressed. As the National Union of Mineworkers we have made and will have to continue to make many sacrifices. 1993 heralds important challenges for our union and the democratic movement as a whole. Central Committee will have to deliberate on these matters and decide the way forward for the coming months.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1993
- Authors: NUM
- Date: Feb 1993
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149528 , vital:38861
- Description: It is one year since our last Central Committee.During this period much has happened on the international and domestic front. Yugoslavia remains at war, the United States of America has the first democratic President since Carter and millions of people are starving. It is not only in Somalia that people are starving.Right here at home over two million people are fed by poverty relief programmes. Although we thought that democracy was at hand, it has still eluded us in 1992. The Apartheid government still remains firmly entrenched although the negotiations with the African National Congress show some glimmer that the multilateral negotiations will resume shortly, the establishmant of a transitional government and the holding of the first non-racial national democratic elections by the end of 1993 or early 1994. With the violence still not under control we continue to see our people under siege, families broken up and property destroyed. For peace there must be democracy. Apartheid has left incalculable damage and a legacy that will have to be addressed. As the National Union of Mineworkers we have made and will have to continue to make many sacrifices. 1993 heralds important challenges for our union and the democratic movement as a whole. Central Committee will have to deliberate on these matters and decide the way forward for the coming months.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1993
Central committee report
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: Feb 1993
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149576 , vital:38865
- Description: The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) held a successful 1993 Central Committee (CC) meeting from 11-13 February at CSIR Centre in Pretoria. The CC attended by 300 delegates from the 16 regions of the union representing 280 000 members deliberated key issues affecting workers in mining and energy sectors. With the opening session, the 11th, being the third anniversary of the release of NUM honorary president, Nelson Mandela, the stage was set for tough decisions to be taken on the current political developments in South Africa. NUM president, James Motlatsi outlined general guidelines on major issues affecting workers in his keynote address. Major issues for discussion were: Retrenchments, NUM’s role in the forthcoming national democratic elections, Wages and conditions of employment demands for 1993, Assessment of the state of the NUM. It took delegates three days of serious discussions to come out with decisions which will guide the union in this dynamic period in the history of our country. NUM was honoured to have ANC secretary general, Cyril Ramaphosa as a guest speaker on the current political developments. COSATU general secretary, Jay Naidoo also gave us the honour by giving an invaluable input on the challenges faced by the labour movement today. The CC culminated with a mass rally in Klerksdorp on the 14th February for report back. The CC was held under the theme: Save jobs and protect standards. Forward to democratic elections. Details of CC decisions are given in this report. Please note that this report is not the official record of the CC proceedings but is a summary guide prepared by the NUM media department for the information of members. We suggest you keep it for future reference.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1993
- Authors: NUM
- Date: Feb 1993
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149576 , vital:38865
- Description: The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) held a successful 1993 Central Committee (CC) meeting from 11-13 February at CSIR Centre in Pretoria. The CC attended by 300 delegates from the 16 regions of the union representing 280 000 members deliberated key issues affecting workers in mining and energy sectors. With the opening session, the 11th, being the third anniversary of the release of NUM honorary president, Nelson Mandela, the stage was set for tough decisions to be taken on the current political developments in South Africa. NUM president, James Motlatsi outlined general guidelines on major issues affecting workers in his keynote address. Major issues for discussion were: Retrenchments, NUM’s role in the forthcoming national democratic elections, Wages and conditions of employment demands for 1993, Assessment of the state of the NUM. It took delegates three days of serious discussions to come out with decisions which will guide the union in this dynamic period in the history of our country. NUM was honoured to have ANC secretary general, Cyril Ramaphosa as a guest speaker on the current political developments. COSATU general secretary, Jay Naidoo also gave us the honour by giving an invaluable input on the challenges faced by the labour movement today. The CC culminated with a mass rally in Klerksdorp on the 14th February for report back. The CC was held under the theme: Save jobs and protect standards. Forward to democratic elections. Details of CC decisions are given in this report. Please note that this report is not the official record of the CC proceedings but is a summary guide prepared by the NUM media department for the information of members. We suggest you keep it for future reference.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1993
Commission of inquiry to investigate the development of a comprehensive labour market policy
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250662 , vital:52036
- Description: In 1985, the Central Statistical Services and the Chamber of Mines ceased publishing a racial breakdown of mining industry employment. This marked the end of a statistical series that dated back for almost 100 years. Since 1985, there is no official series of racially segmented data for the mining industry, while the racial breakdown of employment in all other sectors of the economy was published up until 1992. From 1993, the Central Statistical Services introduced a new “Unspecified Race” category into its published employment data, making the identification of trends in employment and income by race less certain. The statistical information on racial issues in this submission must reflect these difficulties with the data. In respect of gold and coal mines that are members of the Chamber of Mines, the Chamber periodically has made available unpublished information on employment and total wages after 1985, grouped into “skilled employees” and “unskilled / semi-skilled employees.” Until about 1989, when legal barriers to the employment of blacks in skilled jobs were removed, the two Chamber categories reflect the old “White” and “Non-White” categories used by the Chamber before 1986. Since 1989, a small, but slowly increasing number, of skilled workers have been black, but this has not been taken into account in any of the statistics presented for the gold and the coal sectors. “Black” employment in the gold and coal mining industry thus refers to employees in Categories 1 to 8, the only groups for which the NUM currently bargains with Chamber member mines.
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- Date Issued: 1985
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250662 , vital:52036
- Description: In 1985, the Central Statistical Services and the Chamber of Mines ceased publishing a racial breakdown of mining industry employment. This marked the end of a statistical series that dated back for almost 100 years. Since 1985, there is no official series of racially segmented data for the mining industry, while the racial breakdown of employment in all other sectors of the economy was published up until 1992. From 1993, the Central Statistical Services introduced a new “Unspecified Race” category into its published employment data, making the identification of trends in employment and income by race less certain. The statistical information on racial issues in this submission must reflect these difficulties with the data. In respect of gold and coal mines that are members of the Chamber of Mines, the Chamber periodically has made available unpublished information on employment and total wages after 1985, grouped into “skilled employees” and “unskilled / semi-skilled employees.” Until about 1989, when legal barriers to the employment of blacks in skilled jobs were removed, the two Chamber categories reflect the old “White” and “Non-White” categories used by the Chamber before 1986. Since 1989, a small, but slowly increasing number, of skilled workers have been black, but this has not been taken into account in any of the statistics presented for the gold and the coal sectors. “Black” employment in the gold and coal mining industry thus refers to employees in Categories 1 to 8, the only groups for which the NUM currently bargains with Chamber member mines.
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- Date Issued: 1985
CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE “DECENT WORK IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR TOWARDS & BEYOND 2010"
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250673 , vital:52037
- Description: The 2010 World Cup is upon us, an event of great socio economic import to South Africa and indeed the African Continent. Not only is South Africa on the pedestal, but so is the African Continent. It is all systems go, so says major role players involved in delivering the 2010 FIFA World Cup to the World. However, we wonder if the same holds true for labour, that we can say it is all systems go, when, on the eve of the infrastructure roll out, we are grappling with issues of how we can stake a claim on behalf of the millions of construction workers that we represent.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250673 , vital:52037
- Description: The 2010 World Cup is upon us, an event of great socio economic import to South Africa and indeed the African Continent. Not only is South Africa on the pedestal, but so is the African Continent. It is all systems go, so says major role players involved in delivering the 2010 FIFA World Cup to the World. However, we wonder if the same holds true for labour, that we can say it is all systems go, when, on the eve of the infrastructure roll out, we are grappling with issues of how we can stake a claim on behalf of the millions of construction workers that we represent.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Eskom 1989 Negotiations forth report back
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: July 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134953 , vital:37221
- Description: Sixty representatives from four unions attended a mammoth mediation session at the Esxom College on Thursday 27 July. The mediation lasted until 11.30 pm at night. Eskom has given its final offer for increases for the General Workers in July 1989.
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- Date Issued: July 1989
- Authors: NUM
- Date: July 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134953 , vital:37221
- Description: Sixty representatives from four unions attended a mammoth mediation session at the Esxom College on Thursday 27 July. The mediation lasted until 11.30 pm at night. Eskom has given its final offer for increases for the General Workers in July 1989.
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- Date Issued: July 1989
Eskom 1989 Negotiations report back
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134893 , vital:37215
- Description: Eskom has paid wage increases to salaried staff backdated to 1 April 1989. The NUM has NOT agreed with these increases because they are too low. We are not allowed to go on strike at Eskom - we have to get an arbitrator to decide if the increases must be bigger.
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- Date Issued: 1989
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134893 , vital:37215
- Description: Eskom has paid wage increases to salaried staff backdated to 1 April 1989. The NUM has NOT agreed with these increases because they are too low. We are not allowed to go on strike at Eskom - we have to get an arbitrator to decide if the increases must be bigger.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Eskom wage arbitration
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: Oct 1988
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134905 , vital:37216
- Description: Eskom increased the wages of general workers by 10% from 1 July- 1988, after the unions had rejected a 12% offer. The trade unions declared a dispute with Eskom, and have demanded a 20% wage increase (including the 10% increase implemented unilaterally), to be backdated to 1 July 1988. This document outlines the case for a higher wage increase than that granted by Eskom. All the wage calculations and projections assume that the increased wage will be back-dated to 1 July 1988. This report has been written by the Collective Bargaining Department of the National Union of Mineworkers in collaboration with the Labour Research Service in Cape Town.
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- Date Issued: Oct 1988
- Authors: NUM
- Date: Oct 1988
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134905 , vital:37216
- Description: Eskom increased the wages of general workers by 10% from 1 July- 1988, after the unions had rejected a 12% offer. The trade unions declared a dispute with Eskom, and have demanded a 20% wage increase (including the 10% increase implemented unilaterally), to be backdated to 1 July 1988. This document outlines the case for a higher wage increase than that granted by Eskom. All the wage calculations and projections assume that the increased wage will be back-dated to 1 July 1988. This report has been written by the Collective Bargaining Department of the National Union of Mineworkers in collaboration with the Labour Research Service in Cape Town.
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- Date Issued: Oct 1988
Eskom wage negotiations for general workers 1989
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134916 , vital:37217
- Description: Eskom started the 1989 wage negotiations with an offer of 7% on average. They said this offer is ail they need to make to keep their relative position in the labour market. we believe that the Eskom offer is contrary to the substance and spirit of Arbitration Award which forced Eskom, in 1988, to grant a 14,8% average increase in place of the 10% average increase Eskom implemented unilaterally m July last year. Dr Dry, the Eskom personnel manager, read out from an NUM pamphlet issued after the arbitrators raised the wages. He read out this one sentence. Today, through unity, the minimum wage rates as Eskom are amongst the highest in the country for workers living in compounds.
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- Date Issued: 1989
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134916 , vital:37217
- Description: Eskom started the 1989 wage negotiations with an offer of 7% on average. They said this offer is ail they need to make to keep their relative position in the labour market. we believe that the Eskom offer is contrary to the substance and spirit of Arbitration Award which forced Eskom, in 1988, to grant a 14,8% average increase in place of the 10% average increase Eskom implemented unilaterally m July last year. Dr Dry, the Eskom personnel manager, read out from an NUM pamphlet issued after the arbitrators raised the wages. He read out this one sentence. Today, through unity, the minimum wage rates as Eskom are amongst the highest in the country for workers living in compounds.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Fifth national congress - Annual report
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154199 , vital:39620
- Description: 1986 was a tumultuous year as mineworkers waged gallant battles on many fronts. It was a year when mineworkers were continuously compelled to take militant action to advance not only their cause as mineworkers but to advance the liberation struggle. The State of Emergency brought about a level of dedication and commitment amongst mineworkers that had never been experienced before as several structures of the union had to function without their leaders for some time. The intransigence of bosses in wage negotiations propelled mineworkers to unprecedented levels of militancy and compelled many employers to capitulate in the end. 1986 saw mineworkers participating in many more strikes than other workers and their participation in nationwide stayaways was clear evidence that "THE MINERS HAVE ARRIVED."
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- Date Issued: 1987
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154199 , vital:39620
- Description: 1986 was a tumultuous year as mineworkers waged gallant battles on many fronts. It was a year when mineworkers were continuously compelled to take militant action to advance not only their cause as mineworkers but to advance the liberation struggle. The State of Emergency brought about a level of dedication and commitment amongst mineworkers that had never been experienced before as several structures of the union had to function without their leaders for some time. The intransigence of bosses in wage negotiations propelled mineworkers to unprecedented levels of militancy and compelled many employers to capitulate in the end. 1986 saw mineworkers participating in many more strikes than other workers and their participation in nationwide stayaways was clear evidence that "THE MINERS HAVE ARRIVED."
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- Date Issued: 1987
IEC CONFERENCE ON PROFIT SHARING
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174134 , vital:42445
- Description: At present, profit sharing does not fit into the philosophy of any trade unions in South Africa. It is not a part of the policy of any union I know about. Where profit sharing schemes exist and are accepted by the unions, this is because of special circumstances. This talk is in three parts: First, I will explain where my union, the National Union of Mineworkers, has accepted profit sharing schemes and why it has done so. Secondly, I will outline the different levels of agreements that we have negotiated on profit sharing and the principles we have agreed should govern such schemes Thirdly, I will speak of the implementation of the schemes, and their potential for providing a basis for greater worker participation in the enterprises which have negotiated profit sharing agreements.
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- Date Issued: 1993
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174134 , vital:42445
- Description: At present, profit sharing does not fit into the philosophy of any trade unions in South Africa. It is not a part of the policy of any union I know about. Where profit sharing schemes exist and are accepted by the unions, this is because of special circumstances. This talk is in three parts: First, I will explain where my union, the National Union of Mineworkers, has accepted profit sharing schemes and why it has done so. Secondly, I will outline the different levels of agreements that we have negotiated on profit sharing and the principles we have agreed should govern such schemes Thirdly, I will speak of the implementation of the schemes, and their potential for providing a basis for greater worker participation in the enterprises which have negotiated profit sharing agreements.
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- Date Issued: 1993
In defence of freedom
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149565 , vital:38864
- Description: This book was produced to respond to questions asked by our members during the president’s national RDP mass education tour. It covers our struggle history from as early as 1652 up until the time when Nelson Mandela was inaugurated the first president of a democratic South Africa. The book also attempts to assist comrades to understand what the RDP is and find ways of rebuilding our country after the hard years of apartheid. Workers, particularly from the mining industry will be able to use this book in understanding how their contribution will assist in creating jobs, building more houses etc. We would like you to read this book over and over again and discuss the content with comrades in your branch. The committee will appriaciate any suggestions that you may come up with.
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- Date Issued: 1995
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149565 , vital:38864
- Description: This book was produced to respond to questions asked by our members during the president’s national RDP mass education tour. It covers our struggle history from as early as 1652 up until the time when Nelson Mandela was inaugurated the first president of a democratic South Africa. The book also attempts to assist comrades to understand what the RDP is and find ways of rebuilding our country after the hard years of apartheid. Workers, particularly from the mining industry will be able to use this book in understanding how their contribution will assist in creating jobs, building more houses etc. We would like you to read this book over and over again and discuss the content with comrades in your branch. The committee will appriaciate any suggestions that you may come up with.
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- Date Issued: 1995
Job creation scheme in the United States in the depression
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169055 , vital:41679
- Description: During the 1930's the world experienced the most wide-spread and severe economic depression in its history. The beginning of the Great Depression was signalled by the great crash on the New York Stock Exchange in 1929.
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- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169055 , vital:41679
- Description: During the 1930's the world experienced the most wide-spread and severe economic depression in its history. The beginning of the Great Depression was signalled by the great crash on the New York Stock Exchange in 1929.
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- Date Issued: 1991
NUM - Induction course participants manual
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1998
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149554 , vital:38863
- Description: This Induction Course is the most important education programme in the National Union of Mineworkers. It is the beginning of a development programme for shaft/shop stewards as cadres of the labour movement and cadres of the working class movement. The Induction Course is part of a programme to organise, deepen organisational understanding, raise class-consciousness and develop working class leadership. Once a shaft/shop steward has completed the course, he/she must demand progression through the intermediate course to the leadership school. Development and desire for selfgrowth should be in the hands of stewards themselves. We train shaft/shop stewards because we are committed to ensuring that Mine and Energy workers themselves determine their destiny. They must lead and control their own union. This can only become reality if it translates into these workers taking over all strategic positions in the union. The Induction Course must instill ambition and make our members develop dreams about the union.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1998
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1998
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149554 , vital:38863
- Description: This Induction Course is the most important education programme in the National Union of Mineworkers. It is the beginning of a development programme for shaft/shop stewards as cadres of the labour movement and cadres of the working class movement. The Induction Course is part of a programme to organise, deepen organisational understanding, raise class-consciousness and develop working class leadership. Once a shaft/shop steward has completed the course, he/she must demand progression through the intermediate course to the leadership school. Development and desire for selfgrowth should be in the hands of stewards themselves. We train shaft/shop stewards because we are committed to ensuring that Mine and Energy workers themselves determine their destiny. They must lead and control their own union. This can only become reality if it translates into these workers taking over all strategic positions in the union. The Induction Course must instill ambition and make our members develop dreams about the union.
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- Date Issued: 1998