Strategic plan for the restructuring of the textile and clothing industries
- Authors: SACTWU
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: SACTWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176444 , vital:42695
- Description: The achievement of international competitiveness within a 10 year time frame with: a minimisation of the loss of job opportunities in the textile industry, the growth and net creation of jobs in the clothing sector, both formal and informal, successful, in general, export-orientated textile and clothing industries, the acceptance by the industries of a greater responsibility for their own future by lessening their dependence on government by improving productivity through human resource development, work organisation and upgraded technology; a conscious move out of the lower end of the market but simultaneous efforts to retain these activities within the region; and a competitive environment where everyone gains, including the consumer, by making basic goods more affordable.
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- Date Issued: 1995
SACTWU - Shop Stewards Bulletin Vol 1 No.1
- Authors: SACTWU
- Date: May 1990
- Subjects: SACTWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116907 , vital:34457
- Description: SO wrote Bertolt Brecht, a German poet of the working people, in his famous poem “In Praise Of Learning”. Today, many years later, South Africa’s factories are filled with hungry persons, fighting for a living wage. One powerful weapon in that fight is knowledge. SACTWU hassetuptheEducationDep artm en t to meet the need for an educated worker leadership. This Bulletin is brought out to help arm worker leaders - with information, fresh ideas, new thoughts, skills - to fight the battle for a new South Africa. The Bulletin will carry articles on issues in the factory and outside of it. All issues which affect workers. Our lives are bigger than the factory only. It will carry stories on events in South Africa and also outside our country. The world today is small. Events in one country can affect people in another. Workers must take on interest in the whole world. It will seek to develop a thinking leadership, not one which follows blindly.
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- Date Issued: May 1990