FAWU Wage Information System: research for bargaining support

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Title: FAWU Wage Information System: research for bargaining support
Creator: Labour Research Service
Date: 19uu-uu-uu
Description: This document outlines a technical strategy from the late 1990s to professionalise the collective bargaining capacity of the Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU). It describes a partnership with the Labour Research Service (LRS) to develop a digitised Wage Information System (WIS), enabling the union to transition from anecdotal evidence to data-driven negotiation.
This proposal, likely authored by an LRS senior researcher (Reza Daniels), details a two-phase implementation plan for a Wage Information System (WIS) at the FAWU Head Office.

Phase One (Wage Data): Focuses on the logistical challenge of centralising signed wage agreements from regional coordinators. It establishes a workflow for analysing "cash vs. real wages," wage differentials, and percentage changes across sectors.

Phase Two (Non-Wage Benefits): Addresses the "hidden" part of the social wage. Since formal agreements often omit specifics, the plan involves surveying shop stewards via questionnaires to capture data on sick leave, allowances, medical aid, housing loans, and retrenchment packages.
Subject: See all items with this value Information storage and retrieval systems--Wages; Collective bargaining—Food industry—South Africa; Labour unions—Information services; Labour Research Service (South Africa); Wages—South Africa—Statistics; Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU)
Format: pdf
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105774
Provenance: The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
Extent: 2 pages
Rights: Labour Research Service
Rights Holder: Labour Research Service
Use/re-use: The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
Publisher: Labour Research Service

Item sets: General Materials; Food and Allied Workers' Union Collection

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