Engineering Industrial Workers' Union

The Engineering Industrial Workers' Union (EIWU) was a trade union representing engineering workers in South Africa.

The Iron and Steel and Metal Workers' Union became the No 5 branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union of South Africa (AEU) in 1947.[1] However, the expelled its non-white members in 1957. They joined the now-independent No 5 branch en masse, and in 1961 this founded the Engineering Industrial Workers' Union.[2] It affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA), and grew rapidly: from 430 members in 1962,[3] to 11,849 in 1980.[4]

The union resigned from TUCSA in 1985, in protest at its focus on white workers. It renamed itself as the Engineering, Industrial and Mining Workers' Union. On 1 August 1995, it merged with the AEU, the Iron Moulders' Society of South Africa, and the South African Boilermakers' Society, to form the National Employees' Trade Union.[5][6]

References
  1. Padayachee, Vishnu; Vawda, Shahid; Tichmann, Paul (1985). Indian workers and trade unions in Durban: 1930-1950 (PDF). Durban: University of Durban-Westville. ISBN 0949947717. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. Webster, Eddie (1985). Cast in a Racial Mould. Ravan Press. ISBN 9780869752852.
  3. Wirtz, W. Willard (1966). Directory of Labor Organizations: Africa. Washington DC: Bureau of International Labor Affairs. pp. 39.25–39.28.
  4. Miller, Shirley (1982). Trade Unions in South Africa 1970-1980: a directory and statistics. Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit. ISBN 0799204692.
  5. Finnemore, Martheanne (1997). Introduction to labour relations in South Africa. Butterworths. ISBN 9780409027969.
  6. Steenkamp, C. L. (2004). THE RESTRUCTURING PROCESS OF THE SAMANCOR MANGANESE MINES (MAY 2000 -JUNE 2001). Potchefstroom: North West University.
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