TRADE UNION CONGRESS OF SWAZILAND (TUCOSWA) Masalesikhundleni Street                                                            P. O. Box 1158 Plot #290                          […]

NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE AMALGAMATED TRADE UNION OF SWAZILAND 02 January 2020 “Interdependency is a fundamental law of nature. Every tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very […]

Introduction It was in Philadelphia, in 1948 when member States of the International Labour Organization declared that labour was not a commodity. This declaration was in respect and in response to the types of employment contracts that were derived from the ancient Roman Laws and practices.

    The Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA), a worker loved trade union organization is saddened and dismayed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s attitude towards the union. The conduct displayed by the Ministry and the manner in which the Ministry is hell-bent on bringing ATUSWA where it has no business is […]

Introduction On the 31st July, 2019, The Ministry of Labour and Social Security issued a statement containing “directives” on the administration and activities of the SMAWU, including the appointment of an Interim National leadership of the Union for a period of

18 June 2019 Montigny Investment Limited, a company that is owned by the Minister of Finance in the Kingdom of Eswatini stand opposed to the fundamental principles of human rights by tirelessly working on denying its employees the right to Freedom of Association. Montigny was financed and is co-owned

  7th June 2019 It is disturbing and disheartening that the media, especially the Swazi Observer continue to paddle lies about our trade union organization, the Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland. The Swazi Observer has consistently told lies and presented it as truth despite that we have through the Secretary General of the union Cde […]

03rd June 2019   On Friday the 31st of May 2019, the Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA) leadership, officials and senior Shop Stewards were waylaid and assaulted by seiwu hired mercenaries whom most of them have never been employed in their entire lives.

29 May 2019 While performing their core functions, the Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA) officials were threatened with violence and forcefully removed from the gate of Montigny at Bhunya on the 28th of May 2019. First to charge towards the ATUSWA officials was a group of uncompromising

12 April 2019   On this day the 12th day of April 2019, Swazi workers organized under the Swaziland Electricity Supply, Maintenance and Allied Workers Union (SESMAWU) and the Amalgamated Trade Union of Swaziland (ATUSWA) welcomed the General Secretary and Sub-Sahara Africa