The Food and Beverage Workers' Union was a trade union representing workers in the food processing industry in South Africa.
The union was established in 1979 by Skakes Sikhakhane, after he had lost re-election as general secretary of the Sweet, Food and Allied Workers' Union.[1] In 1980, it was a founding affiliate of the Council of Unions of South Africa, and by the following year, it had 6,000 members.[2] By 1986, when it transferred to the new National Council of Trade Unions, it had grown to 16,124 members.[3] In 1993, it merged with the National Union of Wine, Spirits and Allied Workers, to form the National Union of Food, Beverage, Wine, Spirit and Allied Workers.[4]
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- ^ Southall, Roger (1995). Imperialism Or Solidarity?. UCT Press. ISBN 9780799216110.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Special Report of the Director-General on the Application of the Declaration Concerning Action Against Apartheid in South Africa. International Labour Office. 1994.