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BusinessLive reports that in 60 days the axe could fall on the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), one of SA’s most militant and disruptive trade unions, after a senior government official gave notice on Wednesday of cancelling its registration.
There were two reasons for the notification of the pending cancellation of Amcu’s registration with the department of labour, said Lehlohonolo Molefe, the registrar of labour relations, in a government gazette. "The trade union has ceased to function in terms of its constitution; and the trade union is not a genuine trade union as envisaged in the act," Molefe indicated in the brief notice, which invited written responses within the next 60 days as to why Amcu’s registration should not be cancelled. Amcu is likely to challenge Molefe’s notice, both in writing and, if its registration were terminated, all the way through the courts with its strong financial resources and legal team. Amcu has just come out of a five-month strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold division, having gained nothing more than what other unions had agreed on in November. The union has a history of long strikes, most famously bringing the platinum industry around Rustenburg to its knees with a five-month strike in early 2014.
- Read Allan Seccombe’s report in the above regard at BusinessLive
- Read too, Axe hangs over Amcu, but timing questioned, at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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