The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) was established at an historic Founding Congress in May of the year 2000. The Founding Congress was the culmination of a long process of building the unity of transport, security and cleaning workers under the banner of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. This was in line with the principle 'One Industry, One Union' and a founding resolution of COSATU. It brings together 134 000 workers into COSATU's seventh largest affiliate. SATAWU is the union for all workers in the transport, cleaning and security sectors. This includes rail and road passenger and freight, maritime and aviation, contract cleaning, contract security, car hire, toll roads. We organise both in the public and private sector. In the public sector, we negotiate with key ministries like Public Enterprises and Transport to restructure publically owned state enterprises in the interests of our members and the working class. SATAWU has a unitary national structure with regional offices in all nine provinces and numerous locals in small towns across the country. The SATAWU Head Office is situated in Johannesburg. SATAWU is affiliated to COSATU , International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and TO THE United Network International (UNI). This web-site aims to improve the communication of the union to its structures. We will use it to explain union policy and activities to our members and shop stewards, to the broad local and international labour movement and to the general public. We hope to use this web-site to inform and educate about the vision of SATAWU and its campaigns. It will be a weapon in the struggle for better conditions of employment for our members, for the creation of quality jobs, for a living wage, for centralised bargaining and for worker education and training. It will, we hope, contribute towards democratic trade unionism, worker struggles and social transformation in South Africa, Africa and the world.