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VIDEO: Casual workers organise to claim their rights
Women casual workers talk about how they organised to fight for their right to permanent employment.
Tag: organising strategies
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4 years ago
How reclaimers bargain | Struggles and successes of a worker organisation
Louis Mahlangu, Organiser at African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO), speaks about the organisation’s collective bargaining experience. ARO is the first to unite workers in South Africa’s landfills and streets.
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4 years ago
Digital labour platforms subject global South workers to ‘algorithmic insecurity’
But platform workers are pushing back and demanding greater transparency and improved conditions.
The Negotiator’s Guide Chapter 2 | Recruitment and organising
Recruitment and organising are two key processes in collective bargaining. Let’s recollect the differences between a worker that has been recruited and a worker that is organised through describing what each of these workers are thinking about, what feelings they might experience and how they might act.
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6 years ago
UIF covid-19 relief fund: Using the law to get wins for workers
Vulnerable workers in South Africa face destitution in the absence of a viable channel for individual applications to the UIF’s covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme.
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7 years ago
Inspiring women organising strategies – The mall Story
We’ve encountered great organising strategies used by women workers in the course of our work. Our member union, SACCAWU, managed to mobilise women working in shopping malls.
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8 years ago
Inspiring and innovative women organising strategies – A train story
Nosipho Twala writes about her experience travelling in a Metrorail train in Gauteng Province and discovering a space with a creative blend of consciousness-raising, organising and mobilising.
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8 years ago
Meet the union leader: Philasande Mthethwa, Organiser at Swaziland Commercial and Allied Workers Union
At 19 years he was assaulted by a Chinese manager at the garment factory he worked and his life changed forever. Here’s Phila’s journey in trade unionism.
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8 years ago
Success Story – using a global framework agreement to organise Shoprite workers
Can a global framework agreement help a union to organise? For Swaziland Commercial and Allied Workers Union, the answer is a resounding yes.
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