Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions

The Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions (CCSATU) was a national trade union federation of white workers in South Africa.

The South African Trades and Labour Council (SAT&LC) included all unions, but a minority of its affiliates opposed the affiliates of unions of black workers. Five unions of white workers resigned from the SAT&LC in 1947, and in 1948 they founded the Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions. It was supportive of apartheid, and its development was encouraged by the National Party.

In 1957, the federation affiliated to the South African Confederation of Labour (SACOL). By 1962, it had 13 affiliates, with a total of 40,221 members. As SACOL became more centralised, CCSATU declined in importance, and it appears to have dissolved around 1980.

Union Membership (1962) Association of State Sawmill and Forestry Workers of South Africa 539 Bank Employees' Association 2,326 Cement and Clay Workers' Organisation of South Africa 226 Die Spoorbond 12,223 European Building Workers' Union 5,499 European Textile Workers' Industrial Union of South Africa 204 Glass Manufacturing Workers' Union 445 Match Workers' Union of South Africa 252 Orange Free State Road Builders' Union 745 Provincial Co-workers' Association 2,300 Provincial Domestic Staff Association 132 South African Iron and Steel Trades Association 15,000 Transvaal Transport Workers' Union 330

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