2007 The year of different and difficult bargaining

摘要

Collective bargaining has evolved over the past ten years to become a more peaceful and stable environment on the bargaining of wages and conditions of employment. Although 2006 saw an increase in strike action, we have enjoyed a stable industrial relations environment over the past ten years. There are many factors that have contributed to a decrease in strikes, including a much improved legislative environment and a far more open and democratic method of introducing industrial relations legislation. The political negotiations of CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) were the backbone to this leading up to the interim constitution, a negotiated document, and paved the way for democratic elections in 1994.