Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier this year, twelve major U.S. companies agreed to end segregation and promote fair employment practices in their South African plants. Last week the European Community agreed to a new code of conduct for European subsidiaries in South Africa. Although nonbinding, the code forbids wage discrepancies between races and allows blacks to join trade unions and join in collective bargaining. If the rules are observed, the economic impact on South Africa could be dramatic, although there is a danger that companies may simply raise the salaries of some black workers while abolishing the jobs of others...
...often, live with their families. They must live in segregated townships, for which the regime provides tiny houses, usually without running water or electricity. But the poverty of the Bantustans forces thousands of Africans to shuttle back and forth to the towns, taking any job offered, at any wage...
...South Africa employed 3573 workers, one-fifth African, half Coloured, the rest white. Only 61 Africans employed by G.M. earned over $1.07 an hour that year. Most of the other Africans earned less. All but 57 Coloureds earned less than $1.46 an hour. The average monthly wage for whites was well over twice the average wage for blacks...
...average African monthly wage at Mobil's Durban refinery was $137 without Christmas bonus in 1972. Between 1962 and 1972. Mobil trained 19 Africans (mostly in heavy-vehicle driving) and 992 whites...
...Texaco and Standard Oil of California. It operates a refinery in Cape Town, and markets petroleum products throughout the country. It also owns shares in two Southern Rhodesian marketing and refining companies. Caltex employs about 2000 workers in South Africa, about a third of them black. The average African wage in 1972 was $139 a month; the minimum...