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| Title: | Health and Police Unionism in the Eastern Cape: Attitudes, Perceptions and Prospects |
| Author: | Wood, Geoffrey |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 33 |
| Pages: | 1-17 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | trade unions police health personnel Health and Nutrition Labor and Employment Law, Human Rights and Violence Urbanization and Migration |
| External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/315/OBJ/download |
| Abstract: | Dominated by whites, for many years South Africa's public sector was known for its extremely conservative employment practices, and unequal treatment for members of different racial and ethnic groups. This picture changed dramatically in the late 1980s, with the emergence and rapid expansion of independent unions in the public sector. This paper focuses on the nature and impact of public sector unionism involving hospital and police workers in two urban centres in the Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown. It deals with the Police, Prisons and Civil Rights Union (Popcru), founded in the late 1980s, and the National Education and Health Workers Union (Nehawu), launched in 1987. The findings of the study, which is based on two parallel questionnaire surveys and open-ended interviews, include, amongst others, that Popcru is popular among junior ranks while SAPU (South African Police Union), an alternative, predominantly black police union which emerged in the early 1990s, is more popular amongst longer standing police service members, and that Nehawu seems to have a following amongst all categories of employees, although the union faces intense competition from SANA (South African Nurse Association) in the skilled workers category. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
