The Building, Construction and Allied Workers' Union (BCAWU) is a trade union representing workers in the construction industry in South Africa.
The union was founded in 1975 to represent black workers in the industry. It affiliated to the Black Consultative Committee,[1] and then to the Council of Unions of South Africa. It had 9,200 members by 1981,[2] growing to 27,264 in 1986,[3] with a particular strength around Gauteng, where it was the leading union in the industry.[4]
In 1986, the union affiliated to the new National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU), of which it remains a member.[5] By 2011, it had about 47,000 members.[6]
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- ^ Ncube, Don (1985). Black trade unions in South Africa. Braamfontein: Skotaville. pp. 109–111. ISBN 0947009051.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kunnie, Julian (2018). Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 978-0429979231.
- ^ Kraak, Gerald (1993). Breaking the Chains. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 0745307051.
- ^ Blackburn, Daniel (2021). Trade Unions of the World (PDF). ICTUR. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ Lawrence, Andrew (2014). Employer and Worker Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1107071755.