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Labour and the GDS
A programme to save jobs and advance social equity
Overview
• Significant area of work• Distill presentation into
– A few case studies– Some random examples of
implementation– Link to daily work
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Case studies
• Labour Job Creation Fund• Cape Town Fashion Festival• Buy Local campaign
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Labour Job Creation Fund
• Arose from the Presidential Job Summit• Workers contributed a day’s pay to job
creation• Trust set up to disburse funds• Unique programme in global labour
relations• GDS focus on provincial programmes
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Labour Job Creation Trust
• R81m committed• 37 238 jobs created• E Cape 11 642 jobs• Gauteng 9 444 jobs• KZN 3 618 jobs• Limpopo 3 654 jobs• Mpumalanga 3 063 jobs
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Job creation Trust
• N Cape 1 893 jobs• Free State 1 560 jobs• W Cape 1 299 jobs• NW Province 1 065 jobs
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Fashion Festival
• Promoting fashion to create jobs, support local industry
• Cape Town as gateway to South African fashion
• Combine high-fashion, street-action and support to local businesses
• A union-initiative
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March to May 2006
- 22 events and activities- Participation & audience reach: 52 000- Media reach: 24,5 million people- Economic impact: R12 million- 110 designers (incl 40 Spring Queen designers)- Wear South African theme
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Face of the Festival
Landiswa Ntinga,clothing worker from Monviso Knitwear
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Fashion Festival
• SETA Graduation: 800 learners• Township Fashion focus• Mall Fashion: V&A, Cavendish• Fashion Awards• Fashion and Lifestyle Expo: CTICC• Fashion Night• Worker Focus on May Day
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Buy Local campaign
• Launch of Proudly SA• Chemical Sector Summit commitments• Cosatu Agreement• Numsa and TV industry• Sactwu and clothing retailer campaign• W Cape government agreement• Fashion Festival• China Agreement
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Buy Local campaign
• Focus on consumers: pamphlets at shopping malls
• Xmas campaign• Homegrown Awards of PSA• Focus on specific sectors
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Implementation of GDS
• NUM initiative to save 6 513 jobs at Durban Roodepoort Gold
• Sactwu saving of jobs at Rex Trueform
• Denosa joint initiative to identify reasons for loss of nurses in SA
• Numsa success in saving jobs in the auto component sector
• UASA employment report
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Implementation of GDS
• Retirement Fund Conference: Labour Trustees Declaration
• NUM and the Mining Charter, 2005• Ceppwawu and ABET programmes
in Chem sector• Sactwu finance for primary school
numeracy and literacy programs• SATAWU ABET in transport sector
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GDS Implementation
• SASBO allocates R10 000 per BEC to help Aids orphans in their area
• SACTWU: global leader in education, advocacy and VCT in unions:– 60 000 members a year in education– 5 000+ workers in testing/counselling– 800+ workplace leader training p/a– ARV rollout in 2006
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GDS Implementation
• Denosa bringing international conference of 10 000 nurses to SA
• Nactu runs a printing coop• Fawu runs rural coops with 3 500
workers• Zenzeleni Clothing as worker-
owned job creation coop
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Summary
Theme1: • Decent work – the heart of
collective bargaining• Procurement: work in PSA• Coops: union initiatives• Small business: focus on rights and
opportunities for workers
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Challenges
• Labour market: casualisation• Growing income inequalities• Procurement: increased imports• Industrial performance: exchange
rate challenge
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Summary
Theme2: Investment
• Sector work of unions: mining, chemicals, auto, clothing & textiles
• Provident Fund transformation• Workplace reorganisation
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Challenges
• Agreement on 5% investible funds• Shift resources to development• Trustee training• Reclaiming the rights of ownership
on Retirement Funds
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Summary
Theme3: Equity
• Training & learnerships: SETAs• Cadreship of 140 unionists on SETA
Boards• ABET programmes at workplaces: need
more resources• BEE: empowerment of workers and
communities: a living wage, training, decision-making.
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Challenges
• Defining BEE in a development framework
• Resources for training
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Summary
Theme4: Local development
• Municipal level• Provincial level: including
Provincial Growth & Development Summits
• Partnerships
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Challenges
• Moving beyond the metros• Greater focus to partnerships• Role of national government
departments
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Conclusion
• Partnerships• Resources• Publicity• Focus on development, rights and
growth• GDS a big achievement:
strengthen implementation
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Conclusion
• Crisis of poverty, unemployment and inequality
• Good news message needs to be matched with good news reality
• Two worlds in one country: two realities. How to build one reality
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