BusinessLive reports that 10 mining companies are due to argue in the Labour Court on Wednesday for an urgent interdict to prevent a secondary strike at their operations by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu).  

The union has called a seven-day secondary strike in support of a protracted strike by its members at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations.  Hearings due for Tuesday were rolled over to Wednesday, just hours ahead of the strike called to start on the evening of 28 February.  Amcu had served secondary strike notices on 15 companies, but withdrew the notifications against four companies, including African Rainbow Minerals, DRDGold, Kumba Iron Ore, Impala Platinum’s refineries, and mining contractor Fraser Alexander.  Of the 11 remaining companies, Sibanye’s platinum division will not seek to interdict the strike, being a directly related party to the strike called on 21 November at its gold mines.  The 10 other companies will argue for an interdict on the basis that they are not directly related to Sibanye and a strike at their operations will not materially affect that company’s gold mines.  They will also argue that the consequences of the strike are out of proportion to the objective Amcu hopes to achieve, which is the end of the Sibanye gold strike.

• Read the full original version of Allan Seccombe’s report in the above regard at BusinessLive

See too, Platinum producers ask court to block strike due to commence on 28 February, at Moneyweb

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