Engineering Industrial Workers' Union

The Engineering Industrial Workers' Union (EIWU) was a trade union representing engineering workers in South Africa.

The Iron and Steel and Metal Workers' Union became the No 5 branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union of South Africa (AEU) in 1947.[1] However, the expelled its non-white members in 1957. They joined the now-independent No 5 branch en masse, and in 1961 this founded the Engineering Industrial Workers' Union.[2] It affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA), and grew rapidly: from 430 members in 1962,[3] to 11,849 in 1980.[4]

The union resigned from TUCSA in 1985, in protest at its focus on white workers. It renamed itself as the Engineering, Industrial and Mining Workers' Union. On 1 August 1995, it merged with the AEU, the Iron Moulders' Society of South Africa, and the South African Boilermakers' Society, to form the National Employees' Trade Union.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Padayachee, Vishnu; Vawda, Shahid; Tichmann, Paul (1985). Indian workers and trade unions in Durban: 1930-1950 (PDF). Durban: University of Durban-Westville. ISBN 0949947717. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. ^ Webster, Eddie (1985). Cast in a Racial Mould. Ravan Press. ISBN 9780869752852.
  3. ^ Wirtz, W. Willard (1966). Directory of Labor Organizations: Africa. Washington DC: Bureau of International Labor Affairs. pp. 39.25 – 39.28.
  4. ^ Miller, Shirley (1982). Trade Unions in South Africa 1970-1980: a directory and statistics. Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit. ISBN 0799204692.
  5. ^ Finnemore, Martheanne (1997). Introduction to labour relations in South Africa. Butterworths. ISBN 9780409027969.
  6. ^ Steenkamp, C. L. (2004). THE RESTRUCTURING PROCESS OF THE SAMANCOR MANGANESE MINES (MAY 2000 -JUNE 2001). Potchefstroom: North West University.