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The Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions (CCSATU) was a
national trade union federation A national trade union center (or national center or central) is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a country. Nearly every country in the world has a national trade union center, and many have more than one. In some regions, such a ...
of white workers in South Africa. The
South African Trades and Labour Council The South African Trades and Labour Council (SAT&LC) was a national trade union federation in South Africa. History The federation was founded in 1930, when the South African Trades Union Council merged with the Cape Federation of Labour Unions. ...
(SAT&LC) included all unions, but a minority of its affiliates opposed the affiliates of unions of black workers. Five unions of white workers resigned from the SAT&LC in 1947, and in 1948 they founded the Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions. It was supportive of
apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
, and its development was encouraged by the National Party. In 1957, the federation affiliated to the South African Confederation of Labour (SACOL). By 1962, it had 13 affiliates, with a total of 40,221 members. As SACOL became more centralised, CCSATU declined in importance, and it appears to have dissolved around 1980. {, class="wikitable sortable" ! Union !! Membership (1962){{cite book , last1=Wirtz , first1=W. Willard , title=Directory of Labor Organizations: Africa , date=1966 , publisher=Bureau of International Labor Affairs , location=Washington DC , pages=39.25–39.28 , - , Association of State Sawmill and Forestry Workers of South Africa , , 539 , - , Bank Employees' Association , , 2,326 , - , Cement and Clay Workers' Organisation of South Africa , , 226 , - ,
Die Spoorbond Die Spoorbond was an Afrikaner railway trade-union formed in 1934 by , founder of the Afrikaner Broederbond, which advocated a policy of replacing all black railway-workers with Afrikaners. It rejected strikes and called instead for loyal service ...
, , 12,223 , - , European Building Workers' Union , , 5,499 , - , European Textile Workers' Industrial Union of South Africa , , 204 , - , Glass Manufacturing Workers' Union , , 445 , - , Match Workers' Union of South Africa , , 252 , - , Orange Free State Road Builders' Union , , 745 , - , Provincial Co-workers' Association , , 2,300 , - , Provincial Domestic Staff Association , , 132 , - ,
South African Iron and Steel Trades Association The South African Iron and Steel Trades Association (SAISTA; af, Suid Afrikaanse Yster en Staalbedryfsvereniging) was a trade union representing white metalworkers in South Africa. The union was founded in 1936, with support from the Nasionale ...
, , 15,000 , - , Transvaal Transport Workers' Union , , 330


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Apartheid in South Africa National trade union centres of South Africa Trade unions established in 1948