International Business

S. Africa Workers, Labor Management Agree: Labor and management clashed--and the winner was South Africa’s new black-led government, with its vision of promoting development through cooperation. After months of negotiations, Sam Shilowa, head of the country’s most powerful and militant union federation, and business representative Bobby Godsell spoke of working together to build economic stability as they described their joint recommendations for a new labor relations bill. Their agreement makes it likely that a bill emphasizing negotiations and discouraging strikes will become law by year’s end.