Recently held Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) Annual National Bargaining Conference, which was attended by 430 delegates and union officials decided to broaden worker participation and shop floor democracy by expanding the conference to involve more worker leaders and workplaces in its collective bargaining processes. The delegates represented 99,000 SACTWU members in the clothing, textile, leather, distribution and related sectors in all parts of South Africa. The main purpose of the Conference was to consolidate nationally the union’s workplace-collected Living Wage demands for the 2014 round of substantive negotiations.