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ANA reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Friday said that it would meet with AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) to deliberate on the gold producer’s possible decision to lay off more than 800 workers at its SA operations.
In a statement, the union confirmed that it had received a so-called Section 189 retrenchment notice from AGA to lay off 849 workers. The NUM is going to meet with the company on Monday, to seek avoidance measures. It called on AGA to rethink its position to retrench and said it would fight tooth and nail to make sure that its members were not retrenched cheaply. Solidarity general secretary Gideon du Plessis said the company had been in consultation with union leaders for a few months and commented: “We hope that we can find an alternative for some of the workers to get employed if not all. We however will try to minimise the number of retrenchments.”
- Read this report in full at The Citizen
- See too, NUM expresses disappointment over looming job cuts at AngloGold, at Mining Weekly
- Read the NUM’s press statement in this regard at Cosatu Today
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