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Labour Market Transformation
The Labour Market Transformation Programme was established in August 2006 and has since its inception been conducting research on a wide variety of themes including atypical employment, unemployment, wages, unionisation and collective bargaining.
Organisational Renewal
The Organisational Renewal research programme's objective is to review and analyse progress in organisation building and to provide research support to COSATU and affiliates in their Organisational Renewal programmes and initiatives.
Economic and Social Justice
The Social and Economic Justice unit is involved in the areas of economic planning, social development and poverty alleviation taking into consideration the most impoverished, marginalised and vulnerable societies drawn from South Africa’s populace.
Changing the workplace
The programme works with Numsa and Ceppwawu and partners with the education section of the German trade union federation, DGB. It has focused on doing workplace research into certain German companies in the metals and chemical sectors.
The current social, economic and political climate in South Africa requires a return to social movement unionism. The protracted and PR disaster of the 2010 teachers, nurses and municipal workers strikes nearly pitted workers against the rest of South Africa. Just us COSATU and its affiliates managed to undermine the discriminatory laws of apartheid through changing the work place, there needs to be consideration on how to counter the socio-economic challenges that face workers outside of the immediate job/workplace.
The People’s Budget Coalition (PBC) is a civil society coalition comprising the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the South African Non-Governmental Organisation Coalition (SANGOCO). This coalition has for the past ten years tabled proposals on the budget and a participatory budget process.
About Naledi
The National Labour & Economic Development Institute (NALEDI) is a non-profit organisation which undertakes labour and economic research.
Who We Are
Would you like to get to know the people behind Naledi a little better? Over the years, Naledi has evolved into a team of dedicated people.
Find out more about everyone at Naledi and a some details of their qualifications and their current role at Naledi.
Contact Naledi
Phone: +27-11-403-2122
Fax: +27-11 403 1949
6th Floor COSATU House,
Street: 1 Leyds corner Biccard
Braamfontein
Johannesburg
2000