Keyword: worker control

South Africa: Workers' Factory Takeover to Defend Jobs Enters Second Month

Picture: Workers World Media Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal - A militant factory occupation by South African metalworkers is about to enter its second month. On October 20, 2010, workers at the Mine Line/TAP Engineering factory in Krugersdorp, just outside Soweto, began the occupation to prevent the removal of machinery and other assets and to fight to save their jobs. The workers are demanding the state take over the factory, so that it can be reopened as a democratically run workers' cooperativ The workers are organised by the Metal and...