“Knowledge is too Important

 The LRS website provides access to a range of LRS resources including downloads of publications, posters and research papers, a detailed South African labour history, and an archive of material on women and the South African trade union struggle.

Our Hearts Are Joined - Writings from Letsema Booklet

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LATEST SNAPSHOP WAGE SETTLEMENTS

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LRS Snapshot Wage Settlement Jan - Aug 2015

LRS LAUNCHES THEIR LATEST BOOKLET LOOKING AT THE NATIONAL MIMINUM WAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA

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Towards a South African National Minimum Wage

LRS launches the Bargaining Indicators 2014: Twenty Years – A Labour Perspective

The Labour Research Service has launched the new and latest Bargaining Indicators for 2014, with the title “Twenty Years – A Labour Perspective”. The book has the following chapters:

• An Overview of the Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage in South Africa (Eddie Cottle)
• Wage Determination in south Africa since 1994 (Trenton Elsley and George Mthethwa)
• Women and Gender Relations in the South African Labour Market (Liesel Orr and Tanya Van Meels)
• The State of Labour 20 Years After Democracy (Niall Reddy)
• Twenty Something Years of Tripartism (Jan Theron)
• Our Stake in Directors’ Fees 1994 – 2014 (Michelle Taal)
• Twenty Years of Transformation of the Construction Sector in South Africa since the end of Apartheid (Eddie Cottle)
• Skills Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Siphelo Ngcwangu)
• Worker Education in South Africa (Salim Vally, Mphutlane Wa Bofelo and John Treat)

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The 2010 FIFA World Cup Campaign: The Lessons for Building Trade Unions

The LRS has published this booklet with the aim of creating awareness of the possibilities for organising and recruiting non-standard workers into the trade union movement. The “Campaign for Decent work Towards and Beyond 2010” that unfolded from 2007 to 2010 around the preparation for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, demonstrated the huge potential that the method of campaigning holds for organizing and uniting a fragmented workforce.

LRS Bargaining Monitor on the Private Security in South Africa

Snapshot of Wage Settlements Jan - June 2014

The latest Snapshot of Wage Settlements is now available for download. click here