Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union | |
Founded | 8 March 1996 |
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Headquarters | Pretoria, South Africa |
Location | |
Members | 105,000 (2022) [1] |
Key people | Johan Koen, General Secretary, Keith Swanepoel President |
Affiliations | None |
Website | www.imatu.co.za |
The Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union (IMATU) is a trade union in South Africa. It has a membership of 107,000 and is the largest politically independent trade union in the local government sector.
The Union was founded on 8 March 1996, with the merger of five unions: [2]
It originally affiliated to the Federation of South African Labour Unions, [3] then to its successor, the Federation of Unions of South Africa, [4] but it is now independent.
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