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ANA reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the Free State region has served Harmony Gold’s Phakisa mines with 48-hours’ notice of a strike.
Thousands of NUM members are apparently ready to take industrial action. Regional chairperson Tanki Malefane said in a short statement on Thursday: The NUM Free State Region is fed up and angered by an ongoing conduct by Harmony in that they are busy doing away with all our agreements, and replacing them with company policies. All our attempts to engage peacefully with Harmony failed and therefore left us with no option but to strike. The matter was referred to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and the NUM was awarded a certificate of non-resolution to the dispute which allowed it to go on strike starting with a night shift on Sunday, 2nd of September 2018 from 18H00.”
- This short report is at The Citizen
- The NUM’s press statement is at NUM News
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