ANA reports that the United Association of SA (Uasa) has vowed job cuts at mining company Sibanye-Stillwater "tooth and nail".  

The trade union’s spokesman Stanford Mazhindu said in a statement on Sunday:  "A substantial number of Uasa members employed at mining company Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations have received section 189 notices.  Uasa is part of the section 189 process at Sibanye-Stillwater and will have to find a way to sugar coat the bitter pill of possible retrenchment for our workers.  We will resist the job cuts tooth and nail."  Mazhindu went on to indicate:  "As poor economic growth figures further inhibit employment creation it is the workers’ heads on the butcher’s block.  Uasa will interrogate Sibanye-Stillwater’s rationale for the intended retrenchments and will make presentations to the company in this regard.  We intend to influence the company’s selection criteria according to which employees are to be declared redundant and will creatively explore ways and means to minimise redundancies, like the placement of affected employees elsewhere in the company."

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