The Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions (CCSATU) was a national trade union federation of white workers in South Africa.
The South African Trades and Labour Council (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, and its development was encouraged by the National Party.[1] [2]
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.
| Union | Membership (1962)[3] | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 15,000 | ||
| Transvaal Transport Workers' Union | 330 |