{"id":110269,"date":"2019-10-23T03:07:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T02:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=110269"},"modified":"2020-06-08T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:12:49","slug":"satawu-trade-union-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/satawu-trade-union-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"SATAWU: Facts About South African Transport and Allied Workers Union"},"content":{"rendered":"
Like any other trade union in the world, the South African Transport and Allied Workers\u2019 Union (SATAWU) came about as a result of workers in the transport industry needing to form an association that would serve as a collective bargaining agent and legal representative.<\/p>\n
Previously, there existed a number of other independent unions that catered to different factions in the transport industry. The Congress of South African Trade Unions, however, went on to call for one whole trade union in order to stop any counterproductiveness that may come up as a result of the differences between the unions that included The South African Railways and Harbours Workers\u2019 Union (SARHWU), the Black Transnet Allied Trade Union (BLATU), the Transnet Allied Trade Union (TATU), and the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU).<\/p>\n
Following prolonged negotiations, with the initial initiation of discussions having begun in the mid-1980s and the actual process only starting in December 1998, these unions merged in 2000 and formed what we now know today as SATAWU, boasting a membership of just under fifty thousand people.<\/p>\n
SATAWU particularly organizes workers in the transport sector as well as security and cleaning companies. The sectors include railways, harbors, parastatals, aviation, passenger transport (buses and taxis) freight (trucking), contract, cleaning, and security.<\/p>\n
SATAWU accommodates all workers employed in any public or private industries, trades, occupations and undertakings within the country. Its leadership structures cascade from the national leadership to the local area leadership.<\/p>\n