Transnationalism, Mobilization, and Renewal: The Battle with G4S in South Africa
Transnationalism, Mobilization, and Renewal: The Battle with G4S in South Africa
This chapter recounts the international meeting held by a group of security guards and union activists from across South Africa on the 2006 security guard strike that lasted for three months. A study on this meeting shows that South Africa's union movement, though intensely political, is grappling with serious questions of organization and politics that both perplex and discomfit many American unionists. Thus, an easy alliance between Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) would be hard to attain, given the cultural and political legacies of both union movements.
Keywords: SEIU, Service Employees International Union, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, SATAWU, union activists, union movements, South Africa
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