Mining Weekly reports that employees at Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine, near Carletonville, have again on Friday not reported for work, owing to ongoing industrial action.  

Apparently employees also failed to report for the Thursday night shift.  The workers embarked on the action on Thursday morning, with Harmony indicating this was in retaliation for its suspension of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) branch leadership, which had encouraged an earlier go-slow at the mine.  The gold producer suspended the branch leadership after only 25% of the Kusasalethu workforce reported for duty on Wednesday.  That go-slow was in response to disciplinary procedures against 40 employees, following an illegal sit-in at Kusasalethu in January.  No engagements between Kusasalethu’s management and the Amcu leadership have yet been held.

• Read this report in full at Mining Weekly
• See too, Harmony urges Kusasalethu strikers to return to work or face disciplinary action, at EWN

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