WHY JOIN NUMSA?

Because Numsa:

1. Is the biggest trade union in the history of South African Unions with 364,144 members, and growing, organising in the motor, auto, engineering, tyre and rubber sectors.

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2. Gives you free, professional and legal advice right from the day you join and will represent you at workplace level, at the bargaining council or the CCMA, right up to the Labour Court if your case warrants it.
3. Gives you free membership of Doves funeral scheme as soon as you start paying union subscriptions. Doves will give you, your spouse and your children (under the age of 21)a dignified burial should you die.
4. Provides a bursary scheme for your children to study at a university or technikon for certain specified courses (applications are opened every year between May and August for following academic year).
   
   5. Has fought and won workers’ rights and improved their wages and working conditions since the 1970s and is working hard to stop retrenchments, short-time and factory closures.
5. Trains your representatives/ shop stewardsin your workplace to advise, represent and assist you at work with work place related matters. 
   
   7. Has negotiated large industry pension and provident funds that provide for you when you are retrenched dismissed or retire and which you can use as collateral to get a housing loan.
6. Has negotiated Sick Pay Funds that pay you maternity benefits and paid sick leave once you exhaust your annualsick leave.
7. As part of Cosatu, takes up issues that affect you at home and in your community like electricity hikes, E-tolls etc.
8. Has links with other trade unions on the continent and internationally so as to build international worker solidarity eg,

WFTU – World Federation of Trade unions
IndustriAll – IndustriALL Global Union

11. Has almost 60 offices with 345 staff across the country, all dedicated to ensuring that you, the member, come first!

All this for just 1% of your basic wage!

But Numsa can only be as strong as its members. Workers divided are weak.

Metalworkers unite – join Numsa now!

WHO CAN JOIN?

If you are an hourly paid worker or a member of the salaried staff, regardless of your colour, creed or political affiliation as long as you work in the following sectors:

1. Engineering sector– if you manufacture steel, or if you manufacture things made from steel like car components, aluminium cans, bolts, nuts etc, e.g. Scaw Metals, Macsteel
2. Motor sector– if you work in a garage as a mechanic or petrol attendant, or if you sell cars, or parts for motor cars and if you make car parts, e.g. Auto zone, Petrol attendance
3. Auto/tyre sector– if you assemble cars, make tyres e.g. Continental, Bridgestone
4. Electronics sector– if you assemble TVs, telephones and make the cables for telephones and computers e.g. Siemens
5. Infrastructure– employees from Transnet, Prasa
6. Eskom and Energy

If you are employed under the above mentioned sectors and wish to join National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), visit our nearest Regional or Local Offices around your area or Download NUMSA membership form.

BENEFITS

See below the list of benefits NUMSA provides for its members:

As a Numsa member you will have:

1. Free, professional, legal advice right from the day you join.  Our skilled legal team will represent you at workplace level, through the bargaining council or the CCMA right up to the Labour Court if your case warrants it.
2. Access to a bursary scheme for your children to study at a university or technikon for certain specified courses (applications are opened every year between May and August for following academic year).
3. Free membership of a funeral scheme as soon as you start paying union subscriptions.
4. What benefit does NUMSA provide on the death of the NUMSA member or of his/her immediate family? When you sign up as a NUMSA member you and your family members (you and your children under the age of 21 or 25 if they are still studying) are all covered by Doves funeral policy.

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DOWNLOAD NUMSA MEMBERSHIP FORM

You may want to read Numsa constitution before signing up for membership. Click on the link to read the full NUMSA constitution or read the preamble below:

Preamble to the NUMSA Constitution:
We, the members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, firmly commit ourselves to a united South Africa, free of oppression and economic exploitation.

We believe that this can only be achieved under the leadership of an organised and united working class. Our experience has taught us that to achieve this goal we must:

1. Fight and oppose discrimination in all its forms within the Union, the factories and in society;
2. Strive for maximum unity amongst organised metalworkers and organise every unorganised metalworker into our national industrial Union;
3. Ensure that all levels of our Union are democratically structured and controlled by the worker members themselves through elected worker committees;
4. Encourage democratic worker leadership and organisation in our factories and in all spheres of society;
5. Reinforce and encourage progressive international worker-to-worker contact so as to strengthen the worldwide society of metalworkers.

We call on all metalworkers that identify with these principles and aims to join us and the metalworkers we represent, as comrades in the struggle ahead.

We call on all metalworkers to set aside any prejudices they may have and strive for unity under the guiding slogan of the international working class:

“From each according to their ability; to each according to their needs”