ANA reports that trade union Solidarity said on Thursday it was disappointed, though not surprised, by AngloGold Ashanti’s announcement that it would possibly sell Mponeng, its only remaining mine in SA, along with all its other mining assets.
“This announcement does not only prejudice job security, but would cause major uncertainty among employees, directly impacting employee morale,” Solidarity general secretary Gideon du Plessis said. He noted that over the past few years AngloGold had already drastically scaled down its operations in SA. Du Plessis expressed the hope that the process of possibly selling the mine would be a responsible one and that a condition of the deal would be that the new owner would take on all of the affected AngloGold workers on the same conditions of service and maintaining the same labour relations and safety standards. AngloGold CEO Kelvin Dushnisky has apparently fully briefed trade unions about the decision and Solidarity said it would work closely with the company to ensure that South African mining expertise was not lost in the process.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at Business Report
- Read Solidarity’s press statement on this matter at SA Labour News
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