Item 4: South Africa
African Trade Unions and
Industrial Relations Practices
5. I need not, I think, remind members of the
Report of the House of Commons Select Committee and the
guidance subsequently issued in 1974 by Mr Peter Shore,
when Secretary for Trade, to companies with subsidiaries
in South Africa. Since 1974 public interest in the
UK has shifted to some extent from the wages paid to
Black employees to encouraging the development and
recognition of Black trade unions. As the covering
paper points out, this was a point included in the
Department of Trade's guidelines and I know that the
TUC is involved in assisting two institutions in
South Africa - the Urban Training Project in Johannesburg
and the Institute for Industrial Education in Durban
in training Black trade union officials. I will
therefore ask the TUC to open our discussion on this
item.
[ Mr Denison-Edson of Central and Southern Africa
Department will attend for this item.
The Department of Trade retains departmental
responsibility for matters arising from the TISC
Report and subsequent White Paper eg the
publication by British companies of reports on
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