The Urban Training Project (UTP) was an initiative to encourage black workers in South Africa to form new trade unions.
During the 1960s, the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) had first permitted unions representing black workers to affiliate, then banned them, in response to a backlash from many of its white affiliates.
Former officials of the section established the Urban Training Project in Johannesburg the following year, with the intention of educating black workers on trade unionism and works councils.
[1][2][3] Numerous trade unions were created through the work of the project:[1] In 1973, the affiliates founded the Black Consultative Committee (BCC), as a loose federation.
[1] In 1979, some of the committee's affiliates joined the new Federation of South African Trade Unions, leading to their expulsion from the group.