A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the 21st Century: A Minimum Platform to Reposition the ICFTU to Meet the Challenges of the New Millennium,

COSATU Central Executive Committee Political Discussion Paper,

COSATU Section 77 Notice: Anti-privatisation Protest Action, Submitted to NEDLAC,

The People's Budget 2001 - Summary: proposals by COSATU, SACC and SANGOCO for an alternative peoples budget

Building socialism now: preparing for the new millenium: a publication of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South Africa Communist Party,

World AIDS Day 2000: The Role of the Private Sector: Memorandum to Business South Africa from COSATU - handed over on the occasion of COSATU's 15th Anniversary,

World AIDS Day 2000: Memorandum to the Government of South Africa from COSATU - handed over on the occasion of COSATU's 15th Anniversary,

Engaging the Democratic Transition: Article by Zwelinzima Vavi, COSATU General Secretary, to mark the 15th Anniversary of COSATY's formation,

Audit of COSATU Positions on Social Security,

COSATU Political Education Booklet: Understanding Gender: A Struggle Within the Struggle,

COSATU's Input to the SAHRC Public Hearings on Racism, kwaZulu-Natal Region,

The Wits University Support Services Review: A Critique, by Glenn Adler et al,

COSATU Campaigns Report: Unions Committed to Service Delivery,

Building socialism now: preparing for the new millenium: a publication of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South Africa Communist Party,

 COSATU booklet: Understanding the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, a COSATU education document

It's the economy, stupid! Article for The Weekly Mail & Guardian, by Neil Coleman, COSATU Parliamentary Office,

Pledge for Contribution by Labour on the Financing of Employment and Development Programmes ,

Code on HIV / AIDS and Employment in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Women and the Jobs Summit: Notes for a Labour Presentation to the Joint Committee on the Improvement of the Quality of Life and Status of Women,

Beyond sterile rhetoric: Article by Mbhazima Shilowa, COSATU General Secretary,
for The Sunday Times,

Damned if we do! Damned if we don't! Article by Mbhazima Shilowa, COSATU General Secretary,
for The Financial Mail,

Labour Audit for the Jobs Summit ,

Creating Jobs in South Africa: Key Issues and Strategies
Labour Input to Presidential Jobs Summit,

Submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings on Business and Apartheid -

Sharpening Budget Reform for effective delivery of the RDP,
COSATU Discussion Document for the ANC Policy Conference,

Paper by Zwelinzama Vavi on Building the Organisation - for FAWU National Congress,

Memorandum on a People's Budget

Statement on the 1997 Budget

Labour's Approach to the 1997/8 Budget - Input by Mbhazima Shilowa at the NEDLAC Labour Negotiations School,

A Draft Programme for the Alliance - Discussion Paper,

COSATU Rejects SA Foundation's "Growth for All" document

Restructuring of State Owned Enterprises: Framework Agreement

 

Core Documents

A number of basic documents of COSATU that are key to an understanding of the Federation, of its policies and policy direction.

What is COSATU?
COSATU Constitution - as amended at the 6th National Congress,	1997
Advancing Social Transformation In the Era of Globalisation:	7th Congress Political Discussion Paper
Cosatu Political Discussion Document:	December 2002
Draft: Position Paper on Privatisation: privatisation,	August 2002
Repositioning COSATU to Meet the Challenges of the New Millennium - Discussion Paper for COSATU 1999 Special Congress,	August 1999
Report of the September Commission on the future of trade unions,	August 1997
Social Equity and Job Creation - The key to a stable future -	1 April 1996
COSATU Sexual Harassment Code of Conduct -	May 1995