Government Gazette

Vol. 423, No. 21549, 15 September 2000

GENERAL NOTICE

Notice 3200 of 2000

LABOUR RELATIONS ACT, 1995

APPLICATION FOR VARIATION OF REGISTERED SCOPE OF A BARGAINING COUNCIL

I, Hendrik Christiaan Slabbert, Registrar of Labour Relations, hereby, in terms of section 58 (1) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995, give notice that an application for the variation of its registered scope has been received from the Bargaining Council for the Worsted Textile Manufacturing Industry (Cape).

Particulars of the application are reflected in the subjoined table.

Any person may object to the application on any or all of the following grounds:

  1. The applicant has not complied with the provision of section 29 of the Act, read with the changes required by the context;
  2. the sector and area in respect of which application is made is not appropriate; and
  3. the applicant is not sufficiently representative in the sector and area in respect of which application is made.

Any person who objects must lodge his/her written objection with me, c/o the Department of Labour, Laboria House, 215 Schoeman Street, Pretoria (postal address: Private Bag X117, Pretoria, 0001), within 30 days of the date of this notice. A copy of the objection must be served on the applicant within the said period and I must be satisfied that a copy of the objection has been served on the applicant.

The applicant may respond to the objection within 14 days of the expiry of the 30-day period mentioned above and must satisfy me that a copy of the response has been served on the person who objected within the 14-day period.

TABLE

Name of bargaining council: Bargaining Council for the Worsted Textile Manufacturing Industry (Cape).

Date on which application was lodged: 27 September 1999.

Proposed variation of scope: The Council applies for variation of its registered scope to increase the area of registration to the entire Republic of South Africa.

Name and address of the applicant

  1. Name:

Bargaining Council for the Worsted Textile Manufacturing Industry (Cape).

  1. Street address:

James Bolton Hall
127 Gale Street
DURBAN
4001.

  1. Postal address:

P.O. Box 18414
DALBRIDGE
4014
Tel. No. (031) 307-1860/1925.
Fax No. (031) 305-8447.

Sector and areas) in respect of which registration is held: The Council is currently registered in respect of Worsted Textile Manufacturing Industry as defined hereunder in the Magisterial District of Bellville, the Magisterial District of Simonstown, the Magisterial District of The Cape, the Magisterial District of Worcester and in the Magisterial District of Wynberg.

"Worsted Textile Manufacturing Industry" means the industry in which employers and employees are associated for any of the following purposes:

  1. The manufacture, including all operations incidental to such manufacture, of worsted tops and/or noils.

  2. The manufacture, including all operations incidental to such manufacture, of worsted yarns and/or worsted fabrics.

  3. The manufacture, including all operations incidental to such manufacture, of woollen and/or mixed yarn and/or woollen or mixed cloth and/or by-products from wastes or otherwise, but shall not include the following:
  1. The manufacture or finishing either wholly or in part of blankets and/or blanketing and/or travelling rugs and/or shawls and/or tapes, webbing, canvas, duck or coarse curtaining for sale as such;
  2. the manufacture of any yarn for sale, or on commission, which, as a single yarn, contains-
  1. in the case of cotton yarn 4 000 yards or less to the English pound (avoirdupois); and
  2. in the case of woollen or mixed yarn, 2 500 yards or less to the English pound (avoirdupois);
  1. the manufacture of any yarn for sale, or on commission, which, as a single yarn contains-
  1. in the case of cotton yarn, over 4 000 yards to the English pound (avoirdupois); and

  2. in the case of woollen or mixed yarns over 2 500 yards to the English pound (avoirdupois); unless it is stipulated in writing as a condition of sale or the production on commission that such yarn shall not be used for the manufacture of any of the articles specified in paragraph (i); and

  1. the manufacture for sale, or on commission, of any fabric or cloth which is capable of being made into any of the articles specified in paragraph (i) unless it is stipulated in writing as a condition of sale or the production on commission that such fabric or cloth not be used for the manufacture of any of the articles specified in paragraph (i).

Representativeness of the Council: Total number of employees falling within the new scope of the Council and who belong to the trade unions that are party to the Council:

3 327.

Total number of employers falling within the new scope of the Council and who belong to the employers' organisations that are party to the Council:

7.

Total number of employees employed within the new scope of the Council by the employers who belong to the employers' organisations that are party to the Council:

3 796.

Total number of the employers within the new scope of the Council: 10.

Total number of employees employed within the new scope of the Council: 4 443.

H.C. SLABBERT
Registrar of Labour Relations