Labour and the GDS

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Labour and the GDS

• A programme to save jobs and advance social equity

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Overview
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• 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
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• Labour Job Creation Fund
• Cape Town Fashion Festival
• Buy Local campaign

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Labour Job Creation Fund
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• Arose from the Presidential Job Summit
• Workers contributed a days 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Landiswa Ntinga,
• clothing worker
• from Monviso
• Knitwear

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Fashion Festival
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• SETA Graduation 800 learners
• Township Fashion focus
• Mall Fashion VA, Cavendish
• Fashion Awards
• Fashion and Lifestyle Expo CTICC
• Fashion Night
• Worker Focus on May Day

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Buy Local campaign
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• 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
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• Focus on consumers pamphlets at shopping malls
• Xmas campaign
• Homegrown Awards of PSA
• Focus on specific sectors

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Implementation of GDS
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Labour market casualisation
• Growing income inequalities
• Procurement increased imports
• Industrial performance exchange rate challenge

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Summary
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• Theme2 Investment
• Sector work of unions mining, chemicals, auto,
  clothing textiles
• Provident Fund transformation
• Workplace reorganisation

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Challenges
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• Agreement on 5 investible funds
• Shift resources to development
• Trustee training
• Reclaiming the rights of ownership on Retirement
  Funds

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Summary
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• 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
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• Defining BEE in a development framework
• Resources for training

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Summary
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• Theme4 Local development
• Municipal level
• Provincial level including Provincial Growth
  Development Summits
• Partnerships

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Challenges
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• Moving beyond the metros
• Greater focus to partnerships
• Role of national government departments

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Conclusion
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• Partnerships
• Resources
• Publicity
• Focus on development, rights and growth
• GDS a big achievement strengthen implementation

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Conclusion
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• 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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