Description
The program of CGSLB and its SSO, Movement for International Solidarity (MIS) in South Africa aims to strengthen her trade union partner one of COSATU’s affiliates, SACCAWU (organising workers in the retail & hospitality sectors) to be able to sustainably represent vulnerable workers by promoting and improving social dialogue as the mean to obtain decent working conditions.
This 5 year program proposal direct its focus on the 2 transversal themes of gender and climate, contributing to the ILO Decent Work country program for South Africa, by focusing on the element of GBV/gender sensitive collective bargaining (ILO R.206, R.204) and given labour related input towards green & decent jobs. On the level of the objective SACCAWU will placed improve labour rights on GBV, maternity rights and/or the gender pay gap on the NEDLAC social dialogue agenda, developed a program against GBV and Sexual harassment (R206, art 7b) and give sectoral input to help in their negotiations concerning new labour related climate change adaptation measures

Objective
Strengthened trade union partners in South-Africa have improved social dialogue (SDG 16.7), as a right and a governance instrument for all precarious workers in the formal and informal economy, in contribution to a just transition from the informal to the formal economy (ILO Recommendation 204, SDG 8.3, 8.5 & 8.8), with attention to gender and age equality (SDG 5.1 & 5.2), and the environment (SDG 13.2).

Type of activities
Training, lobby and campaigns – capacity building