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The Trade Union Advisory and Co-ordinating Council (TUACC)
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These are:
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Metal and Allied Workers' Union (1973) National Union of Textile Workers (1973) Chemical Workers' Industrial Union (1974) Furniture and Timber Workers' Union (1974) Transport and General Workers' Union (1974)
Signed-up membership
Paid-up membership
1,700
1,000
6,000
2,000
2,900
900
800
200
40,000
6,800
They are based mainly in Natal, though the MAWU also has a branch in Johannesburg. They are strongly non-racial, rejecting parallelism when it implies paternalism and, in their view, subordination.
The Urban Training Project Assisted Unions
5. These are:-
Engineering and Allied Workers' Union
(1963 - pre UTP)
Signed-up membership
Paid-up membership
11,000
4,000
600
600
1.000
300
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3,000
800
720
370
Sweet, Food and Allied Workers (1974). United Auto, Rubber and Allied Workers Union
(1974)
3,000
1,500
3,000
1,500
760
260
650
220
South African Chemical Workers' Union (1972) Laundry & Dry Cleaning Workers' Association
(1972) Transport and Allied Workers' Union (1974) Building, Construction and Allied Workers
Union (1975)
Glass and Allied Workers' Union (1975) Paper, Wood and Allied Workers' Union (1975)
These nine independent unions receive assistance, training and the use of official facilities from the UTP. This organisation has offices in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Springs, Benoni and Pretoria, and provides a training and educational function. Links do exist between some of these independent Black unions and registered unions. For instance, the South African Chemical Workers' Union has received practical help by way of the loan of a motor vehicle from the registered union.
The Black Allied Workers' Union (BAWU)
6. This is a national organisation with a claimed membership of 6,000 (paid-up membership is estimated at under 1,000). The union is identified with the aims and ideals of the Black consciousness movement and has no links with the White trade union movement. Its founding General Secretary, Mr Drake Koka, is now in the United Kingdom working for the Catholic Institute of International
Relations.
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