Sikhula Sonke farmworkers union is a women led
Western Cape
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based independent
trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...
.
Its focus include issues such as labour rights, domestic violence,
food insecurity
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and alcohol abuse. The union has over 4000 employed and unemployed members including those living on farms in Stellenbosch, Grabouw, Villiersdorp, Franschhoek, Ceres, Rawsonville, Paarl and Wellington.
Its members resolved to boycott the April 2009 elections as part of the
No Land! No House! No Vote!
No Land! No House! No Vote! is the name of a campaign by a number of poor people's movements in South Africa that calls for the boycotting of the vote and a general rejection of party politics and vote banking. The name is meant to imply that i ...
Campaign.
In 2011 it had around 5 000 members on over 200 farms in ten different districts of the Western Cape.
Agents of Change? Post-Apartheid Social Movements
by Anciano, Fiona, Rhodes University, 2013
See also
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* EZLN
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Since ...
in Mexico
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* Fanmi Lavalas
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in Haiti
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* Homeless Workers' Movement
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in Brazil
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* Landless Workers' Movement
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in Brazil
* Movement for Justice en el Barrio
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Organisational profile
The Movement defines itself as follows:
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in the United States of America
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(USA)
* Narmada Bachao Andolan
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in India
* Take Back the Land
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in the USA
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Trade unions in South Africa
Land rights movements