Minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, newsletters and press clippings relating to TUCSA and its predecessors the Cape Federation of Labour Unions, the South African Industrial Federation, the South African Trade Union cngress and South Africn Trades and Labour Council, and to individual trade unions.
Topics are labour relations, industrial legislation, African trade unions, 1922 strike, trade union unity, relations with the government and trade union organisations overeas. Includes material on the National Health Services commission.
The records are of interest not only to the economic and industrial historian but also to those researching the social and political history of South Africa. Topics covered include: individual unions, their relationship to each other and the attempts to form a national association and so bring unity to the trade union movement; relations between South African trade unionism and international bodies, with political parties in South Africa such as the Labour Party and the Communist Party and with government through its committees, commissions, boards and departments; disputes, strikes, arbitration and industrial legislation; race relations, job reservation and the recognition of Black, Coloured and Asiatic unions.

Anna M Cunningham April 1979.

Abbreviations.

AEU Amalgamated Engineering Union.

BWIU Building Workers Industrial Union.

ERPM East Rand Proprietary Mines.

FWIU Furniture Workers Industrial Union.

GWU Garment Workers Union.

ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

ICU Industrial and Commercial Workers Union.

IFTU International Federation of Trade Unions.

ILO International Labour Organisation.

MLA Member of Legislative Assembly.

MPC Member of Provincial Council.

MTWA Manufacturing Tailors Workers Association.

NEC National Executive Committee.

NUDW National Union of Distributive Workers.

SAAEO South African Association of Employees Organisations.

SAAME South African Association of Municipal Employees.

SAIF South African Industrial Federation.

SALP South African Labour Party.

SAMWU South African Mine Workers Union.

SAP South African Party.

SAR and H South African Railways and Harbours.

SATUC South African Trades and Labour Council.

SATUC South African Trades Union Congress.

TUC Trades Union Congress.

TWIU Textile Workers Industrial Union.

TWU Tobacco Workers Union.

WEA Workers Educational Association.

WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions.

WTA Witwatersrand Tailors Association.

WWMA Witwatersrand White Miners Association.

The collection includes membership registers, administration records, minutes before and after the merger. Some sections of the collection is focuses on municipal departmental themes and topical issues.

The collection amongst other important documents includes Constitutions, Policy and Procedure Documents, Resolutions, Financial Documents and Reports, Meeting Minutes, Conferences, Summits, Workshops, Internal Correspondence, Press Releases and Reports of the Teachers' Union.

Legal files from Cheadle Thompson & Haysom attorneys, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, information re. strike action and dismissals, court records, accidents, arbitrations. Dealing with Anglo-American Corp. Mines, including Elandsrand, President Steyn, Henry Could, Buffelsfontein, Driefontein, Randfontein, Libanon, Marievale, Western Deep, Kloof, New Denmark, Vaal Reefs, Free State Cons., Blyvooruitzicht, Western Areas, and others.

This collection contains the photographs relating to FOSATU and affiliated Unions.