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Food and Canning Workers' Union

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The Food and Canning Workers' Union (FCWU) was a trade union representing food processing workers in South Africa. Its members were mainly based in the Western and Eastern Cape. It was affiliate with the African Food and Canning Workers' Union (AFCWU).

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Background

The union was established in 1941 by Rachel Simons. It was a founder member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions and spread through the fruit canning industry of the Boland, Western Cape and up the west coast among fishing communities. Many of the members were women.[1] It was open to all races when it formed though the majority of its members were coloured with a minor black membership.[2]: 342  It was registered under the Industrial Conciliation Act, which banned black people who carried passes, something black females did not need at that time of its formation.[2]: 343  By 1945, the union was being harassed by the Department of Labour, raiding it constantly to force it to remove its black members.[2]: 343  It would result in the formation of the African Food and Canning Workers' Union and the two unions met and acted together.[2]: 343  Oscar Mpetha became the General Secretary of a sister union, the African Food and Canning Workers' Union, in 1951.

In 1945 it obtained a Wage Determination for the fish canning industry which improved wages and working conditions.[3] After the National Party won in 1948, and with the establishment of its Apartheid policy, it would suffer the banning of several Secretary's and other union officials.[2]: 343  It was a founding member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in 1955 and made up a third of the latter union's affiliate members with many of its leaders becoming prominent in that union.[2]: 343 

The union went through a lengthy decline, but it was re-established in 1977.[1] By 1979, it had about 25,000 members, and that year, it organised a successful consumer boycott,[4] and the following year, this led to an agreement with Fattis & Monis.[1]

In about 1980, the union absorbed the African Food and Canning Workers' Union, which represented black workers. The union did not affiliate to the Federation of South African Trade Unions, being more openly political than its members, joining the United Democratic Front.[1] In 1982, Neil Aggett was the leader of the union, though unpaid.[2]: 343  He was detained on 27 November 1981 and died in detention.[2]: 344 

The union was a founding affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions in 1985, the longest-established union to join. The following year, it amalgamated with the Sweet, Food and Allied Workers' Union and the Retail and Allied Workers' Union, to form the Food and Allied Workers Union.[1]

General Secretaries

1941: Ray Alexander
1953: Becky Lan
1956: Liz Abrahams
1964: John Mentoor
1976: Jan Theron

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Bendix, Sonia (1996). Industrial Relations in the New South Africa. Cape Town: Creda Press. ISBN 0702134538.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Davies, Rob; O'Meara, Dan; Dlamini, Sipho (1984). The Struggle for South Africa. Vol. 2. London: Zed Books. ISBN 0862322561 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "About FAWU". Food and Allied Workers Union. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. ^ Kiloh, Margaret; Sibeko, Archie (2000). A Fighting Union. Randburg: Ravan Press. p. 73. ISBN 0869755277.


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