Irvin jim numsa biography sample
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Newsletter.
Speech by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary to the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC, USA, January 2015
"Numsa and Post Apartheid South Africa: the state of the South African Revolution."
PART 1: Origins and what Numsa is today
A. History of Numsa
Numsa was formed in May 1987.
It is today South Africa, and indeed Africa's largest metals and manufacturing union.
It was born from the merger of four different unions. These unions were:
MAWU - Metal and Allied Workers Union
MICWU - Motor Industry Combined Workers Union
NAAWU - National Automobile and Allied Workers Union
UMMAWOSA - United Metal, Mining and Allied Workers of South Africa
Two different COSATU unions also gave their metal members to NUMSA:
GAWU - General and Allied Workers Union
TGWU - Transport and General Workers Union
For many years MICWU organised and represented workers in the motor industry: components manufacturing, body building, servicing, and petrol attendants. It started as a union for coloured workers in 1961 when laws forced unions to be divided along racial lines. Its white sister union was part of TUCSA and so it too became a member.
But in 1984 MICWU left TUCSA because of the latter's racist and reactionary policies. After leaving TUC
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to Reality Asserts Itself. I’m Paul Jay. This is The Real News Network. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is in the midst of the political storm. In 2013, it broke with the ANC, governing ANC, and in 2014 was expelled by COSATU, the largest trade union federation of South Africa. At the center of this storm is its president, Irvin Jim, and he now joins us in our studio in D.C. Thanks for joining us.
IRVIN JIM, PRESIDENT, NUMSA: Hi.
JAY: So, first of all, thank you very much for coming. And I know you’re exhausted. As you said, the people have been brutalizing you in interviews, and, unfortunately, we’re going to brutalize you a little more. As people who watch Reality Asserts Itself knows, we start with the personal back story most often and then get into some of the current issues, and we’re going to do that with Irvin. So start from the beginning. Where are you born in South Africa, and what is the political environment you grow up in?
JIM: Well, I’m the son of a farmworker. I grew up in the farms of Port Alfred, which is the Eastern Cape province in South Africa. And both my parents couldn’t read and write. I’m very proud of them. Without education, they pushed me and my siblings to be able to read and w