Workers negotiate with management after marching on Rhodes University administration to demand the recognition of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) and the reinstatement of a dismissed colleague.
National Union of Mineworkers three week strike. Cyril Ramaphosa and NUM members face Anglo-american Negotiating team mid way through the strike for1st Round of Negotiations .
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) General Secretary Jay Naidoo congratulated by supporters following his re-election at the Second National Cosatu congress in Johannesburg. July 1987
Striking railways workers sign back on to work after the end of the biggest (about 18000 workers), and longest (3 months) strike in the history of South African public service. The victory for members of the S.A. Harbour and the Railway Workers Union came after months of police harassment and conflict which left a number of workers dead and many detained. Johannesburg 11 June 1987.