Food and Allied Workers Union

FAWU

Food and Allied Workers Union
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Cape Town, South Africa
Location	South Africa
Members	85,000
Key people	Atwell Nazo, President Mayoyo Mngomezulu, General Secretary
Affiliations	SAFTU
Website	www.fawu.org.za

The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) is a trade union representing workers in the food processing industry in South Africa.

The union was formed in 1986, through the amalgamation of the Food and Canning Workers' Union, the Sweet, Food and Allied Workers' Union and the Retail and Allied Workers' Union.^[1] In 2004, the union absorbed the South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers Union.^[2]

The union was long affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions, but it resigned in 2016, in protest at the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).^[3] In 2017, it was a founding affiliate of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), becoming that federation's second largest affiliate.^[4]

Leadership

General Secretaries

1986: Mike Madlala

1986: Jan Theron

1988: Mandla Gxanyana

2004: Katishi Masemola

2020: Mayoyo Mngomezulu

Presidents

1986: Chris Dlamini

1990s: E. Theron

Phillip Khage

References

1. Gerhart, Gail M.; Glaser, Clive L. (2010). From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35422-8. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
2. "NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS". SAFTU. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
3. Mahlakoana, Theto (24 August 2016). "Fawu quits Cosatu". Independent Online. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
4. Harper, Paddy (22 June 2020). "Fawu fires deputy general secretary. Again". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2021.