The Artisan Staff Association (ASA) was a trade union representing higher-paid technical railway workers in South Africa.
It attempted to register with the Government of South Africa in 1926, but was rejected due to opposition from smaller, sectional, unions of technical railway workers.
[1] From the 1950s, the Federal Consultative Council was affiliated to the all-white South African Confederation of Labour (SACOL).
The ASA resigned from SACOL in 1976, joining the more moderate Trade Union Council of South Africa in 1981.
Following lengthy talks, in 2000 it finally merged with the South African Footplate Staff Association, forming the United Transport and Allied Trade Union.