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METAL : WAGE TALKS 1988 : DEADLOCKED : IMF general meetings will be held on 11th and 25th June

Theme: Labour: An injury to one is an injury to all!


Call Number: 449
Identifier: AL2446_0449
Title: METAL : WAGE TALKS 1988 : DEADLOCKED : IMF general meetings will be held on 11th and 25th June
Date: 1988
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA);
employers;
wage deadlock
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black, red and green, produced by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), Johannesburg. This poster refers to the International Metalworkers Federation meetings that were held in the wake of a wage deadlock between the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and employers. The text reads “METAL : WAGE TALKS 1988 : DEADLOCKED : IMF general meetings will be held on 11th and 25th June” Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 63 (number 110) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 169 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007
Creator: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA collections AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some material is held by individual poster makers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information
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