Abstract: | Using interviews with workers, unionists, labour lawyers and management, this paper examines how the Labour Relations Amendment Act (LRAA) of 1988 has affected industrial relations in South Africa. It shows that the LRAA limits the right to strike, strengthens management's hand in dismissals and retrenchments, weakens the collective bargaining position of nonracial industrial unions, and involves unions in a legal minefield that threatens grassroots militancy. The article also describes the different forms of resistance to the LRAA and its long-term effects. |