Public Service Union of Namibia
{{Infobox union
| name = PSUN
| location_country= Namibia
| affiliation = TUCNA
| members = 23,000
| full_name = Public Service Union of Namibia
| native_name =
| image =
| founded = 1990 (1981)
| dissolved =
| merged =
| headquarters =
| key_people = Matheus Haakuria, secretary general
Paulus Titus Sitentu, president
| website = [http://www.psun.com.na www.psun.com.na]
| footnotes =
}}
The Public Service Union of Namibia (PSUN) is a trade union representing 23,000 public sector workers in Namibia.{{cite web |last1=Jauch |first1=Herbert |title=Namibia's trade union movement: an overview |url=https://cms.my.na/assets/documents/p1c5t3p3tcth2ap61nplhsv1jjs4.pdf |publisher=FES |access-date=26 June 2018 |page=24}} Originally founded as a multiracial association in March 1981 as the Government Service Staff Association (GSSA) due to restrictions on trade unionism during the period of South African control of Namibia.{{Cite book|last=Bauer|first=Gretchen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NsOADAAAQBAJ|title=Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa|publisher=Springer|year=2007|isbn=978-0-230-61003-3|editor-last=Kraus|editor-first=Jon|pages=250|language=en|chapter="Nothing to lose but their subordination to the state"? Trade unions in Namibia 15 years after Independence}}{{Cite news|date=19 November 1990|title=GSSA becomes PSUN|work=The Namibian|url=https://www.namibian.com.na/archive_pdf_19851990/1990_TheNamibian/19%20November%201990.pdf|access-date=3 June 2020}} The union adopted its present name in November 1990.
References
Category:Trade unions in Namibia
Category:Trade unions established in 1981
Category:1981 establishments in South West Africa
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