Food and Allied Workers Union

{{short description|Trade union in South Africa}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox union

|name = FAWU

|location_country= South Africa

|affiliation = SAFTU

|members = 85,000

|full_name = Food and Allied Workers Union

|native_name =

|image = 150px

|founded =1986

|dissolved =

|merged =

|headquarters = Cape Town, South Africa

|key_people = Atwell Nazo, President
Mayoyo Mngomezulu, General Secretary

|website = [http://www.fawu.org.za/ www.fawu.org.za]

|footnotes =

}}

The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) is a trade union representing workers in the food processing industry in South Africa.

The union was formed in 1986, through the amalgamation of the Food and Canning Workers' Union, the Sweet, Food and Allied Workers' Union and the Retail and Allied Workers' Union.{{cite book |last1=Gerhart |first1=Gail M. |last2=Glaser |first2=Clive L. |date=2010 |title=From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otqLgx3RMwYC |location=Bloomington, IN |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-35422-8 |accessdate=11 December 2013}} In 2004, the union absorbed the South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers Union.{{cite web |title=NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS |url=https://saftu.org.za/the-federation/nobs/ |website=SAFTU |access-date=7 March 2021}}

The union was long affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions, but it resigned in 2016, in protest at the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).{{cite news |last1=Mahlakoana |first1=Theto |title=Fawu quits Cosatu |url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/fawu-quits-cosatu-2060583 |access-date=7 March 2021 |work=Independent Online |date=24 August 2016}}

In 2017, it was a founding affiliate of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), becoming that federation's second largest affiliate.{{cite news |last1=Harper |first1=Paddy |title=Fawu fires deputy general secretary. Again. |url=https://mg.co.za/business/2020-06-22-fawu-fires-deputy-general-secretary-again/ |access-date=7 March 2021 |work=Mail & Guardian |date=22 June 2020}}