Full-Length Video
Demands for a Living Wage
August 6, 1987
August 6, 1987
Duration: 02:00:26
People: Lynne Brown
Organizations: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Cape Town Municipality workers Association (CTMWA)
People: Lynne Brown
Organizations: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Cape Town Municipality workers Association (CTMWA)
Description: Footage of a Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU) General Council Meeting, including discussion of basic workers issues, such as wage negotiations with management.
Footage of a Mass Gathering for a Living Wage at which approximately 3000 workers, members of Cape Town Municipality Workers Association (CTMWA), met at Good Hope Center to express their demands for a living wage, as well as several other issues pertaining to the workers' struggle. Speeches include one by Lynne Brown (member of the United Women's Organization, United Women's Congress, and UDF, and Western Cape Provincial Minister of Finance and Tourism, 1994 - ) and several union leaders and shop stewards.
Short Clips
"Comrades, we are not alone in our struggle." 00:03:02Description: Footage of a Mass Gathering for a Living Wage at which approximately 3000 workers, members of Cape Town Municipality Workers Association (CTMWA), met at Good Hope Center to express their demands for a living wage, as well as several other issues pertaining to the workers' struggle. A woman encourages the crowd, reading letters of support for the CTMWA that express various organizations’ reasons for supporting the workers’ demands.
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