Things we know about gender violence in schools
School-related gender-based violence is rampant but preventable. Appalled, teachers are now out to change the story.
Collective bargaining strategy and tactics
A presentation on strategies and tactics for collective bargaining to worker representatives at an LRS Bargaining Forum in Johannesburg.
Lekgotla’s: HOSPERSA’s journey to strengthening equality in the union, workplace and community
The health trade union, HOSPERSA, mapped its journey strengthening equality in the union, workplace and community.
Inflation Monitor | March 2018
The headline Inflation rate at March 2018 was 3.8% year on year. The rate was 0.2% point lower than the corresponding annual inflation rate of 4 % in February 2018.
From policy to programme: An empirical assessment of responses to HIV/AIDS in the workplace
Is there evidence of practical measures for providing HIV/AIDS treatment in the workplace? The report explores how organisations have responded to the pandemic, as well as the relevant labour laws.
Inflation Monitor | February 2018
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined to 4% in February 2018.
Inflation Monitor | January 2018
The inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 4.4% in January 2018 from 4.7% in December 2017.
A decent living level for South Africa- A report on how possession of socially perceived necessities relates to income
This report attempts to relate incomes in South Africa to a measure of a decent living level.
Organising the hospitality sector in Namibia
A report on the context, challenges and strategies of organising hotel workers in Namibia.
Organising in the Zimbabwe hospitality sector
A report on the context, challenges and strategies of organising hotel workers in Zimbabwe.
Organising in the hospitality sector in South Africa
A report on the context, challenges and strategies of organising hotel workers in South Africa.
Bargaining Benchmarks | March 2018
Bargaining Benchmarks is a resource for role players in collective bargaining in South Africa.
Industry wage settlements in 2018 | Q1
The highest percentage increase on actual wages in Q1 of 2018 was recorded in the transport, storage and communication industries, at 10%.
MNC Trends Report 2016
The annual MNC Trends Report provides key information concerning the performance, operations and governance of JSE-listed South African multinational companies operating in Africa.
2016 Sector report – Transport
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the transport sector.
2016 Sector report – Training and Health
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the training and health sector.
2016 Sector report – Technology and Telecommunications
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the technology and telecommunications sector.
2016 Sector report – Retail
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the retail sector.
2016 Sector report – Paper and Packaging
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the paper and packaging sector.
2016 Sector report – Mining
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the mining sector.
2016 Sector report – Industrial
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the industrial sector.
2016 Sector report – Hospitality and Media
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the hospitality and media sector.
2016 Sector report – Food and beverages
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the food and beverages sector.
2016 Sector report – Diversified Holdings
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the diversified holdings sector.
2016 Sector report – Construction
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the construction sector.
2016 Sector report – Banking and Financial Services
Trade union bargaining strategies in South African multinational companies: 2016 Fact Sheet – Revenue, profit and executive pay for the banking and financial services sector.
Creating a health system with zero percent GBV: Lessons from the meadowlands clinic pilot project
The Meadowlands Clinic Pilot Project brought together all stakeholders involved in the health system in one locality to take up actions that will collectively impact on reducing the high levels of gender-based violence.
Decisions for life: Sharing our stories and strategies
Young women involved in the Decisions for Life campaign in South Africa share their own stories and experiences making the trade union a home for young women.
Decisions for life: Sexual harassment
The Decisions for life: Sexual harassment booklet focuses on sexual harassment in the workplace and the protections available to workers.
Decisions for life: Empowering women workers
This booklet shows the impact of the Decisions for Life campaign on the lives of young women workers.
Decisions for life: Decent work and contracts
The booklet features examples of work contracts as well as basic workplace rights, to inform young women workers of their right to decent work.
Decisions for life: Breastfeeding
This booklet focuses on young working mothers and the challenges they experience trying to continue breastfeeding when they return to work.
Decisions for life: Campaign guide
The Decisions for Life campaign builds the power of young women so that they are able to confront issues in the workplace and make decisions about their lives.
Ending gender-based violence in the health sector
We support the efforts of trade unions in the health sector to end gender-based violence in the health system.
MNC Trends Report 2013
The annual MNC Trends Report provides key information concerning the performance, operations and governance of JSE-listed South African multinational companies operating in Africa.
MNC Trends Report 2012
The annual MNC Trends Report provides key information concerning the performance, operations and governance of JSE-listed South African multinational companies operating in Africa.
National Minimum Wage
National minimum wage campaign – because work should lift you out of poverty, not keep you there. LRS has a long history participating in the minimum wage debate in South Africa.
Environmental and CSI reporting in South African multinational corporations
A review of company reporting practices with regards to Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment.
MNC Trends Report 2011
The annual MNC Trends Report provides key information concerning the performance, operations and governance of JSE-listed South African multinational companies operating in Africa.
Value chains capacity building
We supported trade unions in ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to renew their bargaining and organising strategies for tackling inequality in global value chains.
Decent Standard of Living
What does a decent life look like? The Decent Standard of Living Project attempts to derive an understanding of what constitutes a broadly acceptable living level that should be used to reflect a basic living level in South Africa.
Working together with communities to end gender-based violence
We support the struggle by activists to create zero percent Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in communities in South Africa.
Working with teacher unions to end school-related gender-based violence
What will it take to support education unions to end school-related gender-based violence? Labour Research Service supports the struggle by trade unions to end school-related gender-based violence in Africa.
Multinational Corporations Database
The South African Multinational Corporations (MNC) Database holds unique financial, operational and governance information relating to South African multinational companies operating in Africa.
Shop Stewards Alliance Support
We support the capacity of UNI Global Union affiliates in Africa to monitor and influence the activities of South African multinational companies. Unions are increasingly working to ensure that MNCs comply with existing Global Framework Agreements and the Decent Work Agenda.
Promoting gender equality in Southern Africa
We support trade union activists in creating cultures of gender equality in the trade union and workplace.
Collective Bargaining Support
The Collective Bargaining Support Programme offers research, information and education to trade unions to support their efforts to improve bargaining and organising activities and strategies.
Transforming Corporate Governance
The Transforming Corporate Governance Programme provides the labour movement with strategic company research on South African multinational corporations operating in sub-Saharan Africa. The research relates directly to the workers’ own conditions of employment.
Gender Equality
The Gender Equality Programme of the Labour Research Service supports the building of cultures of gender equality in trade unions, the workplace and community.
Decisions for life
Decisions for Life campaign aimed to achieve better working conditions for young women and to increase their numbers in trade unions and union leadership positions.
Labour rights for women
The Labour Rights for Women campaign empowers women to organise and defend their rights in the workplace.
Gender pay gap – can a national minimum wage help to narrow the gap?
How can a National Minimum Wage contribute to narrowing the gender pay gap and moving us closer to gender equality?
Putting union gender equality policy into practice in South Africa- The role of transformational leadership
This report explores the disconnect between trade union labour policy and practice related to gender inequality.
PRIDE at Work
A study on discrimination at work on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in South Africa.
Equality is everyone’s business
This booklet outlines the various laws relating to workplace rights and provides advice on preventing and responding to discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Our hearts are joined: Writings from Letsema
The stories in this book are written by the participants of Letsema, our inspiring collective impact initiative for ending gender-based violence in the Vaal in Gauteng province.
Towards a South African National Minimum Wage
This booklet is an educational resource for trade unions on the important subject of a national minimum wage in South Africa.
A decent living level : A pilot of the minimum income standard approach in South Africa
The aim of this pilot study was to ascertain whether South Africans can reach an agreement about how a decent standard of living is defined and the things that constitute a decent standard of living.
The sting in the tail – African retail unions organising at Shoprite
Trade unions in the retail sector formed an alliance to respond to Shoprite’s expansion into Africa.
Shoprite – Reasons to be proud?
This company analysis of Shoprite and its dealings with workers provides a resource base for regional trade unions to engage strategically with the South African retailer.
Pick n Pay – On your side?
As Pick n Pay sets up to expand into Africa, it is essential that labour rights, good corporate governance and social responsibility move with it.
Massmart/Walmart – are workers valued?
The publication summarises our in-depth analysis of Massmart, including the degree of unionisation and other labour-related challenges for trade unions organising at the company.
Massmart: Walmart into Africa
As Massmart/Walmart expands further in Africa, it is essential that labour rights, good corporate governance and social responsibility move with it.
LRS company fact sheet (2011) – Shoprite Checkers
Who is Shoprite? Where does the company operate? How is it performing? What’s the wage gap at Shoprite?
Global Framework Agreements for Africa – Using the space created
Are global framework agreements useful in the struggle for global solidarity?
A confusion of categories: Organisation of casual and contract workers in South Africa
A case study of the organization of casual and contract workers by the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU).
Why no numbers for domestic workers?
A snapshot of the domestic work industry in South Africa.
Inflation Monitor | December 2017
The inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 4.7% in December 2017 from 4.6% in November 2017.
Inflation Monitor | November 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed down to 4.6% in November 2017 from 4.8% in October 2017.
Inflation Monitor | October 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed down to 4.8% in October 2017 from 5.1% in September 2017.
Inflation Monitor | September 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 5.1% in September 2017 from 4.8% in August 2017.
Inflation Monitor | August 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 4.8% in August 2017 from 4.6% in July 2017.
Inflation Monitor | July 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined to 4.6% in July 2017 from 5.1% in June 2017.
Inflation Monitor | May 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 5.4% in May 2017 down from 5.3% in April 2017.
Inflation Monitor | April 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 5.3% in April 2017 down from 6.1% in March 2017.
Inflation Monitor | March 2017
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed to 6.1% in March 2017
Inflation Monitor | February 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed down to 6.3% in February 2017 from 6.6% recorded in January 2017.
Inflation Monitor | January 2017
The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed down to 6.6% in January 2017 from 6.8% recorded in December 2016.
Anglogold Ashanti – Towards strategic bargaining
An analysis of collective bargaining agreements at AngloGold Ashanti operations.
LRS company fact sheet (2011) – Pick n Pay
Who is Pick n Pay Group? Where does the company operate? How is it performing? How much are directors earning and what’s the wage gap?
LRS company fact sheet (2011) – Massmart
Who is Massmart? Where does the company operate? How is it performing? What are the minimum wages at Massmart Stores?
Anglogold Ashanti – All that glitters is not gold
The research provides company information that trade unions need to effectively engage with Anglogold Ashanti at a national and regional level.