SALISU: South African Library and Information Services Union
We, the members of the South African Library and Information Services Union, confidently obligate ourselves to an integrated democratic South Africa; and obligated also to build an information literate nation by bridging the digital divide through the provision of accurate library and information services.
We believe that this can only be achieved under the leadership of an organised and united library and information service working class. Our determination and hard earned experience has taught us that to achieve these goals we must:
(a) Fight and give the discrimination in the workplace the total rejection that it deserves, and protect all the LIS workers and the LIS profession at all costs;
(b) Strive for a maximum and paramount unity amongst organised LIS workers and;
(c) Ensure that all levels of our Union are democratically organized and controlled by the LIS workers themselves through elected worker committees;
(d) Encourage a democratic and professional LIS workers leadership and appropriate organisation in our libraries and information sectors from all spheres of LIS society;
We appeal to all LIS workers to identify with these principles and aims, to join us and the LIS profession we represent, as companions in the struggle ahead. We call on all LIS workers to set aside any prejudices they may have and fight for unity under the guiding slogan of the LIS national working class:
"IN ONE VOICE, VICTORY IS CERTAIN".
SALISU strives to be the commanding voice of LIS workers in South Africa by achieving maximum support from LIS workers’ employers and, Protect the LIS profession against avoidance and maltreatments from both private and public sectors. SALISU strives to address the LIS workers grievances and fight against unfair labour practices and, Bargaining for improved working conditions and better wages for LIS workers.
