Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.12
Object Name
Poster
Title
Workers! Smash the Labour Relations Act!
Date
1995
Description
A small yellow poster featuring an illustration of a group of workers using pickaxes and mallets to destroy a wall labelled 'LRA'. This poster was made as part of a South African campaign against the Labour Relations Act (LRA) introduced in 1995. Following the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the government were struggling to keep control amidst a critical economic crisis and so introduced this act to cut the wages of workers and replace more workers with machinery. Trade unions and other organisations in South Africa campaigned against this act. The poster reads "Workers! Smash the Labour-Relations Act! Build Unity!"
