Taking COSATU Today Forward Special Bulletin, 18 August 2025 #CosatuCC2025
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18 August 2025
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Contents
- Workers Parliament: Back to Basics!
- Employment and Labour on Compensation Fund payment fraud
- Employment and Labour on QLFS survey revisions amidst escalating unemployment
- South Africa
- COSATU welcomes the convening of the National Dialogue
- SACP Politburo Statement
- International-Workers’ Solidarity!
- SACP stands with the SANDF chief, slams Western imperialist aligned anti-Iran hysteria and geopolitical hypocrisy
- Sub-Saharan Africa youth demand a voice in shaping the future of work
Workers’ Parliament-Back2Basics
Employment and Labour on Compensation Fund payment fraud
17 Aug 2025
Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana Meth, has noted the conviction of six individuals who pleaded guilty to orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to siphon Compensation Fund monies into their personal bank accounts through fictitious medical providers. This six (6) is part of nine (9) individuals who were arrested late last year as part of an ongoing investigation. Three (3) out of the nine (9) individuals are proceeding to trial, and the six (6) will be sentenced in November 2025.
“This case should be a lesson to all those who orchestrate fraudulent schemes to siphon monies from the Compensation Fund that the Department, with the assistance of the law enforcement agencies, will ensure that the individuals implicated in any of the ongoing investigations in and outside the Compensation Fund will face the might of the law,” said Minister Meth.
The Compensation Fund exists to provide financial and medical support to workers who sustain occupational injuries or diseases in the course of their employment. Any attempt to defraud the Compensation Fund is not only criminal but a direct assault on the rights of vulnerable workers and their families who depend on it for their livelihood and dignity.
We commend our Anti-Corruption and Integrity Management team, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and the judiciary for ensuring that justice has been served in this matter. Their work sends a strong and clear message that fraud and corruption within state funds will not be tolerated.
The Department has since intensified measures to strengthen governance, tighten internal controls, and enhance digital verification systems within the Compensation Fund. This includes:
Enhanced monitoring and auditing systems to track irregular transactions.
Collaboration with medical regulatory bodies to validate providers.
Introduction of advanced digital platforms to reduce human interference in claims processing.
Partnership with law enforcement to fast-track investigations and prosecutions where fraud is suspected.
As the Department, we remain steadfast in restoring public trust and ensuring that every rand in the Compensation Fund is used exclusively for the benefit of workers who have suffered occupational injuries and diseases.
The Minister assures the public, workers, and employers that this conviction is not the end, but a continuation of the broader effort to clean up and safeguard all labour-related social protection institutions.
Enquiries:
Ms Thobeka Magcai
Cell: 072 737 2205
E-mail: Thobeka...@labour.gov.za
Issued by Department of Employment and Labour
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Employment and Labour on QLFS survey revisions amidst escalating unemployment
17 Aug 2025
The Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) acknowledges the release of the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the second quarter of 2025, which reveals critical trends in South Africa's labour market. According to the QLFS, the official unemployment rate has once again increased, reaching 33.2%. Long-term unemployment (over one year) rose by 116,000, while short-term joblessness (less than one year) saw an increase of 23,000. Although the expanded unemployment rate declined slightly by 0.2 percentage points to 42.9%, these figures underscore persistent challenges.
DEL commends Statistics South Africa for its initiative to review and revise survey methodologies, particularly those aimed at better capturing data on the informal sector. This commitment is timely and necessary, enriching the national discourse and highlighting the urgent need for modernised tools and approaches that reflect the realities faced by South Africa and other emerging markets. Currently, only 16 out of every 100 members of the labour force are engaged in informal employment, far below the average of 45 out of 100 reported in comparable middle-income countries such as Mexico, Nigeria, and Uganda. This discrepancy raises important questions about whether the true extent of informality in South Africa is being suppressed and how it might be more accurately measured and supported.
The latest QLFS also points to widening inequalities: race, age, gender, location, and education remain decisive factors in employment prospects. Notably, the formal sector added 34,000 jobs in the second quarter, while the informal sector contracted by 19,000 jobs. The labour force expanded by 0.6%. Alarmingly, unemployment levels (140,000) outpaced employment growth (19,000), a sevenfold difference.
Employment gains were led by the trade sector (+88,000), private households (+28,000), and construction (+20,000), while significant losses were observed in community industries (-42,000), agriculture and finance (each -24,000), transport (-15,000), utilities (-6,000), and manufacturing (-5,000).
Provincial disparities remain: the Northern Cape, Western Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal provinces recorded job losses of 8.3%, 4.1%, and 3.1% respectively, whereas the Eastern Cape saw the highest job growth at 6.5%, with Mpumalanga trailing at 0.9%.
The youth (15-34 years) continue to face acute vulnerability, compounded by a projected GDP growth of just 0.9% for 2025 and the adverse effects of US tariffs on export-driven industries. DEL believes that the ongoing evaluation and revision of labour data collection tools are vital to developing effective, evidence-based policy responses. Such updates will enable interventions that are attuned to evolving labour market dynamics and the particular needs of vulnerable groups, especially women and young people, amid structural shifts in the economy and patterns of production.
Given these persistent and emerging challenges, the DEL asserts that a paradigm shift is required in how South Africa approaches unemployment, particularly youth unemployment. This requires expanding viable livelihood pathways within the informal economy, tackling structural constraints that limit its potential as a site of dignified work and entrepreneurship, and enhancing policy design through richer data on informal sector realities. We remain committed to fostering national dialogue, supporting skills development aligned with labour market demand, and championing the transformation of labour market systems for greater inclusion and resilience.
Statistics South Africa is set to publish the QLFS for the third quarter of 2025 in November, incorporating new standards in line with the International Conference of Labour Statisticians. We urge stakeholders to engage constructively with the revised data and join in shaping the policies that will drive South Africa's labour market forward.
Enquiries:
Teboho Thejane
Departmental Spokesperson
Cell: 082 697 0694
E-mail: teboho....@labour.gov.za
Issued by Department of Employment and Labour
COSATU welcomes the convening of the National Dialogue
Matthew Parks, COSATU Parliamentary Coordinator, 18 August 2025
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes the support shown to the National Convention of the National Dialogue over the past weekend, with more than 1 000 delegates from 200 organisations attending.
Whilst we appreciate the legitimate concerns outlined by the Legacy Foundations and others, these can and must be addressed and the Dialogue proceeds.
If we wait for all issues, be it logistics, organisational or philosophical, to be resolved, time will simply run out.
COSATU will participate in the Dialogue as the many deep-seated socio-economic challenges facing the working class, the economy and the state require the mobilisation of the entirety of society, including business to resolve.
We will sharply raise the many crises affecting workers from a dangerously high unemployment rate of 42.9% and stubborn levels of poverty, crime and corruption, to stagnant economic growth, and struggling public and municipal services.
Attention must be paid to the still prevalent effects of apartheid and colonial induced inequalities, as well as the explosion of hate speech and racial incitement on social media and its effect our social fabric and our collective efforts to build a non-racial and non-sexist society that belongs to all who live in it, Black and White.
These threats to the many gains we have achieved since 1994, require bold and progressive solutions. Business as usual approaches, misguided notions of neo-liberalism and reckless austerity budget cuts, will not fix any of them, in fact they will exacerbate crises.
It is critical the Steering Committee, when formed, be mindful at all times that the state has limited resources and workers do not take kindly, to reports of large amounts of funding being sought for it whilst hospitals experience dire shortages of nurses, police stations lack working vehicles and Home Affairs experiences long queues due to aging infrastructure.
Whilst the Presidency is correct to push forward with the convening of the National Dialogue Convention, government will do well to hear the skepticisms of many, including workers, who correctly ask what the Dialogue will achieve and how will we ensure that it does not follow the same route of similar reviews and discussions previously held?
Most importantly society, especially the unemployed, the working and middle classes, expect to see concrete actions emanating and to see their daily lives improve.
The Federation will play its part in not only ventilating the lived realities of the working class, and crafting progressive and sober solutions, but also in holding government, business and other stakeholders accountable for their part in implementing the proposed action plans.
Ultimately the Dialogue must help put South Africa back firmly on the path to renewal, moral regeneration, inclusive economic growth and decent work, a capacitated developmental state, and a better life for all.
Issued by COSATU
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SACP Politburo Statement
Mbulelo Mandlana, SACP Head of Media, Communications and Information, 18 August 2025
The Politburo meeting of the South African Communist Party (SACP) took place at Kotane House, the headquarters of the SACP in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, on Friday, 15 August 2025. The Politburo discussed a variety of issues related to the national and international political situation so as to determine for the Party the short-term and medium-term strategy and tactics related to those political questions. Among others, the Politburo planned for the upcoming SACP Central Committee meeting to be held on 29 to 31 August 2025.
People’s Red Caravan
The Politburo reflected on the 104th anniversary programme of the Party whose pinnacle was the Party rally in KwaDlangezwa in KwaZulu-Natal province. The anniversary of the SACP takes place alongside the historic People’s Red Caravan that has taken place in North West Motlhabe village in June and in Mpumalanga Matibidi village in July. In these week-long events, the SACP stationed itself in these villages to work with the community in building self-sustainability through local food production systems predicated on solidarity and self-reliance. The People’s Red Caravan reflects our Party’s orientation as an organisation rooted in the grassroots working as part of the community to establish the building blocks of our socialist vision.
National Democratic Revolution and the Alliance
The Politburo reaffirmed the SACP 15th National Congress and SACP 5th Special National Congress resolutions, stating the urgent need for the Party and the working class to rescue the national revolution from a rightward slant instituted by increased dominance of bourgeois political and economic interests in how the national political economy is marshalled. The Politburo noted the tangible political decline of the progressive camp that places the national revolution in the increased danger of a decisive defeat. The decline of political hegemony of the democratic liberation movement requires a strategic re-examination of the tactics at play for the SACP and the Alliance at large. The Politburo affirmed the Party’s approach to elections and the defence of the Alliance as a political mechanism to deepen the national democratic revolution.
National Dialogue
The Politburo discussed the varied processes underway regarding the National Dialogue. The SACP affirms the idea of a national dialogue as a platform for a thoroughgoing national reflection on the challenges that face the country, at the centre of which include crisis-high rates of poverty, unemployment, inequality in all its expressions and the scourge of crime and violence.
However, from the standpoint of the SACP, the process underway at this particular moment is marred by questions of lack of inclusivity, which leads to the apparent illegitimacy crisis for the dialogue process itself. The legitimacy of the National Dialogue process lies in its inclusivity, ensuring it is genuinely a whole-of-society process. As things stand, the process leaves much to be desired and requires urgent re-engineering. The function of the government in a process of this nature is that of offering all the support and co-ordination needed to facilitate effective national dialogue among the citizenry, and not that of an institution that decides the agenda, content, direction and outcomes of the process.
The dialogue, at a substantive level, belongs to the citizenry and not to the government authorities. This is because a dialogue is a platform for citizens, among others, to direct critique towards the government on key social and political matters and therefore to call for government policy review. To that extent, the diversity of the process and its inclusiveness are key and need not be limited by overbearing presence of government bureaucratic elements who want to see the outcome reiterate government policy amid its failures for over 30 years to overcome crisis rates of unemployment, poverty and inequality and clamp down on crime and violence, among others.
The many examples of inadequate conception and operation of the dialogue is the exclusion of the SACP from the national dialogue. While some withdrew even before they could be invited and were persuaded by the government to not withdraw, and others withdrew after being invited and forming part of initial preparatory processes, the SACP was excluded altogether. Therefore, our absence from the National Dialogue Convention on Friday, 15 August 2025, was not because we rejected an invitation but because we were excluded and left behind in a process where the government’s key mantra was to leave no one behind.
The SACP continues to call for a national dialogue that is based upon the popular interests of the majority of our people, being the working class and the popular masses, and not a tick-box exercise or a process driven mostly by elitist interests. To that end, the SACP will engage all those involved to ensure that the process is modified of these flaws.
National crisis of crime and violence
The Politburo discussed the worsening crisis of violence and crime in the Republic. Following the now famous press conference of the KZN Police Commissioner, General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, the SACP is calling for a thoroughgoing investigation of the allegations raised by General Mkhwanazi. If true, the allegations by General Mkhwanazi confirm the standing view of the SACP that the criminal justice system is ridden with corruption that ties certain officials, including senior officers, with the criminal underworld, thereby rendering the existing core of honest, untainted and diligent officials and officers ineffective.
The SACP thus commends the brave initiative of General Mkhwanazi from which emerges a real opportunity to cleanse the criminal justice system of corruption and capture through the judicial commission of enquiry announced by the President. The SACP calls for the support of the judicial enquiry and its expediting in line with the provisions stated in its promulgation.
South African Reserve Bank’s mandate
The SACP Politburo discussed the urgent need for repositioning of the South African Reserve Bank to play a developmental role in the state. This must include employment as part of its mandate, explicitly, and holding it accountable for the failure to achieve the constitutional mandate to ensure balanced and sustainable growth.
To be sure, South Africa has never realised balanced and sustainable growth since the adoption of the constitution, which mandates the South African Reserve Bank as the central bank of the Republic to exercise its powers and functions in the interest of achieving sustainable and balanced growth. Problematic as it is, the inflation targeting regime set by the National Treasury allows for some flexibility, within a range of a lower bound of 3 per cent and an upper bound of 6 per cent. However, the South African Reserve Bank has chosen to ignore everything in the range and pursues a more conservative monetary policy stance by targeting the lower end of the range. While not stating how it intends to achieve this, experience and history tell us that the Reserve Bank will increase interest rates.
Interest rate increases will increase the cost of borrowing, including for new or expansionary productive investment and operational continuity and sustainability of co-operatives and small, micro and medium-sized enterprises that are forced to borrow to pay remuneration and operational costs, among others, as a result of the government’s failure to pay them within 30 days. The results will be negative for the economy, including for inclusive growth as a target that is yet to be realised. High interest rates strangle the economy. They do not unlock productive investment but instead enrich finance capital monopolies while suffocating workers, households, co-operatives and small enterprises. Under the regime of high interest rates and associated hikes, families are forced to pay more for mortgages, vehicles and basic loans, reducing their ability to meet daily needs. The outcome is stagnation, persisting high unemployment, poverty and inequality. We have been in this crisis scenario for a long time now.
Whatever can be said, it cannot be the mandate of the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to pursue a more conservative monetary stance in the context where the narrow policy of inflation targeting underpinned by a high interest rate regime and associated hikes has dismally failed to help South Africa achieve balanced and sustainable growth and overcome the crisis rates of unemployment, poverty and inequality. The conduct of the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee leaves much to be desired. It is deeply problematic and demands scrutiny.
Therefore, the SACP calls on the National Treasury to take action in line with its macro-economic policy co-ordination mandate as provided for in the Public Finance Management Act, based on the constitution, and as outlined in the statement responding to the Reserve Bank issued by the National Treasury on 1 August 2025. In the statement, the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, made it clear that, “It is well established that policy making responsibility in this area resides with the Minister of Finance, working with the President and the Cabinet, who set the inflation target in consultation with the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)”.
The action that must be taken includes finalising the mandate of the Reserve Bank in line with the constitution, through a review process based on democratic values and mandate. This must encompass the constitutional imperative for the powers and functions of the Reserve Bank and their exercise by the bank to result in balanced and sustainable growth. It must support industrialisation and, linked with this, explicitly include maximum sustainable employment as an indispensable mandate and a key performance target by which the Reserve Bank is, among others, held accountable.
The SACP has long advocated for a dual interest rate framework, including adequate support for co-operatives and small, micro and medium sized enterprises, with more favourable terms such as moderate interest rates for productive investment and operational sustainability towards balanced and sustainable growth. We have fought against the exploitative system of compound interest rates, for example, on household mortgage bonds, and have called for its review. We remain strategically consistent and reiterate these development policy calls.
COSATU Central Committee
The SACP awaits with anticipation the upcoming Central Committee of COSATU as a key platform for the federation to engage on key matters affecting the working class broadly and its members in particular.
COSATU remains the biggest, most influential and most significant workers’ trade union federation in the country. Its activities and decisions are important for the fate of both the organised workers and unorganised workers of South Africa.
The Politburo expressed the SACP’s support for COSATU as it prepares for and conducts the proceedings of its Central Committee. As part of that support, the SACP will continue to engage with COSATU on all issues affecting the working class while asserting the organisational independence of the federation and its affiliate unions. It is the conviction of the Communist Party that a strong COSATU is crucial for a vision of a future socialist South Africa.
The unity of COSATU remains an important concern of the SACP.
As such, we call for a united COSATU Central Committee meeting. This should in turn lead to a united federation capable of advancing a class-conscious workers’ programme, including tackling neo-liberalism and its restructuring and policy impacts on workers, and leading the struggle for an end to exploitation and domination of workers and society by the bourgeoisie.
International matters
The Politburo analysed the international balance of forces and observed that the changing international context is, among others, characterised by a disjointed relationship among the Western powers. Albeit still strong because of imperialist ties, the disjointed relationship among the Western powers is manifesting in contradictions between Western Europe and the United States of America. The strategic discord among these imperialist powers reflects the emergence of a new age in international affairs, an age of a multipolar world. The multipolar world on the verge of coming to surface occurs against the backdrop of the United States’ inability to respond to the industrial growth of China and its own industrial limitations which have been worsened by concomitant geopolitical realignments virtually undoing the seemingly incontestable controlling status of western imperialism. This reality reflects the imminent change in the formation of imperialism as we know it, including on the technological front and on trade, investment and military fronts.
The Politburo discussed the challenges faced by Cuba as imposed by America’s blockade. The longstanding struggles for the liberation of the Cuban people from United States imperialism continue to be a priority for the SACP in its work. The Party continues to give its solidarity to the Cuban people and will continue to canvas for concrete relations between the state of Cuba and the South African state including on health issues, treatment of the scourge of sugar diabetes in which Cubans have made ground breaking progress.
The Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people is of great concern to the SACP and to that end the Politburo has confirmed the standing position of the Party to support the Palestinian people in the face of the unprecedented violence that has now been worsened by the rise of famine in Gaza.
ISSUED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY,
FOUNDED IN 1921 AS THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Media, Communications & Information Department | MCID
International-Solidarity
SACP stands with the SANDF chief, slams Western imperialist aligned anti-Iran hysteria and geopolitical hypocrisy
Mbulelo Mandlana, Head of Media, Communications and Information Saturday, 16 August 2025
The South African Communist Party (SACP) denounces the manufactured public controversy following the visit of the Chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to Iran. The visit was part of South Africa’s long-standing bilateral relations with Iran. Among the reactionary commentators on this trip was the right-wing, Western imperialist-aligned neo-liberal party called the DA, criminalising this properly sanctioned trip.
The SACP condemns the criminalisation, altogether with the attempt to stir up anti-Iran hysteria through vague, unsubstantiated claims about South Africa’s defence-to-defence engagements with Iran. This is not the first time the reactionaries have used the same tired script to smear legitimate relations between our country and Iran, as well as the BRICS member states.
Defence co-operation, as are investment and trade relations between sovereign nations is a normal, internationally recognised practice. South Africa’s co-operative engagements with Iran are no different from those we hold with other states, including Western European and North American states.
Yet selective, Western imperialist aligned outrage shows a clear bias, one that parrots Western geopolitical agendas while ignoring South Africa’s right to an independent, sovereign foreign policy. The right-wing hypocrisy is glaring: there is deafening silence when the South African government engages in defence meetings and co-operation with the likes of the United States and Western European states. But when the counterpart is Iran, hypocrites mount a public crusade. This is nothing but partisan political opportunism dressed up as concern.
The muddled response of the South African government towards the trip is not only also concerning but problematic as well. The SANDF chief’s comments in Iran regarding political and policy questions reportedly included South Africa’s adopted, and correctly articulated policy positions on Palestine. This reflects South Africa’s international relations and co-operation policy, including solidarity.
The government, and the Presidency in particular, appears to have begun to act to isolate and punish the chief of the military for the alleged contravention of military code regarding political statements and policy statements made during the trip. This action is not an objective act of correcting the defence conduct of a soldier but is a political capitulation to Western-aligned imperialist, right-wing pressure directly influenced by the imperialists’ political interests. It clearly appears that the government is being cajoled to project itself as pro-West and anti-Iran.
The SACP has also observed a developing tendency in the media to compare General Maphwanya’s visit to Iran with the trip of Andrew Whitfield, former Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperation. This comparison is incorrect as General Maphwanya’s visit took place within the framework of military regulations with the full knowledge of the Minister of Defence whereas Whitfield’s visit was unauthorised.
The SACP rejects the impending acts of isolation and scapegoating of General Rudzani Maphwanya to appease Western imperialist forces and their domestic agents, compromising South Africa’s sovereign right to formulate and implement its own foreign policy, including on defence co-operation. Any actions by the government towards General Rudzani Maphwanya as Military Chief must be based on strengthening our military institutions and their capabilities, improving our defence co-operation agreements with other states to which we have full sovereign rights.
The SACP rejects any attempt at dictating which nations South Africa may have bilateral relations with, including defence, trade and investment. We will defend our country’s right to build relations based on mutual respect, equality and solidarity, free from the dictatorship of Washington, Brussels, or their local political surrogates. We call on all progressive forces to resist these smear campaigns and to stand firm in defending South Africa’s sovereign right to conduct its international relations and co-operation policy in the interests of the people, not the whims of imperialist powers, their mouthpieces or domestic agents.
ISSUED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY,
FOUNDED IN 1921 AS THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Media, Communications & Information Department | MCID
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Sub-Saharan Africa youth demand a voice in shaping the future of work
13 August, 2025
As the world marked International youth day on 12 August under the United Nations theme “youth empowerment for a sustainable future”, the IndustriALL Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) youth committee called attention to the realities young workers face, and the role they play in shaping a just, sustainable future.
The SSA youth committee, the first regional youth structure established within IndustriALL, brings together twelve representatives from across the region.
“Since its creation, it has been a driving force in youth work, ensuring that young voices are heard in union strategies and global debates,”
said Sarah Flores, industriALL youth officer.
This year’s International youth Dday coincided with preparations for the committee’s regional meeting to be held in Ghana on 1 September, under the theme “embracing technology and innovation at work”. The theme reflects years of engagement by young trade unionists on the impact of new technologies, from Industry 4.0 and platform work to artificial intelligence and on the future of work.
Since the pandemic, IndustriALL has facilitated discussions in most regions on the opportunities and challenges of technological change. Young workers have consistently demanded a seat at the table, recognizing that these changes will shape their working lives for decades to come.
A concrete outcome of this demand is the inclusion of two youth representatives in IndustriALL’s Industry 4.0 expert working group, including Dorca Norupiri from IndustriALL affiliate Zimbabwe Diamond Allied Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU), representing the SSA region.
The committee’s International youth day statement highlights urgent issues facing young workers in Sub-Saharan Africa:
High youth unemployment, with many trapped in informal, insecure work without rights or social protection
Lack of decent work, with limited access to fair wages, job security and safe conditions
Climate-induced job losses in sectors such as agriculture, mining and energy
Exclusion from decision-making in unions and labour institutions
Gender gaps that hinder equal participation in leadership
“Despite these challenges, young trade unionists in the region are organizing, innovating and pushing for change. They are advocating for safer workplaces, digital access, gender justice, climate-responsive policies and inclusive leadership. Through campaigns for digital skills and active engagement in union decision-making, they are redefining what it means to be a worker in the 21st century,”
said Paule Ndessomin, IndustriALL SSA regional secretary.
As the SSA youth committee prepares to gather in Ghana, their message is clear: investing in youth is essential for building strong, sustainable unions capable of advancing workers’ rights, confronting global capital, and driving sustainable industrial policy.
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Norman Mampane (Shopsteward Editor)
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