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Business Report writes that the General Industrial Workers Union of SA (Giwusa), whose members were dismissed by Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) for embarking on an unprotected strike, has approached the Labour Court to have the dismissals reversed on the basis that they were unfair.
Giwusa branch secretary at the Mototolo mine in Burgersfort, Limpopo, Teddy Thobakgale, indicated on Friday that the court hearing would be on Tuesday. The company reported last week it had dismissed 643 workers after they embarked on an illegal strike on 12 May. But Thobakgale claimed that more than 900 employees had been axed. He said that appeal talks with the company on Thursday had deadlocked. “Appealing does not guarantee our members will get their jobs back. Only the courts can make a judgment on the dismissals,” Thobakgale commented. Giwusa members downed tools after blaming Amplats for changing medical aid benefits on the basis of “a unilateral change in employees conditions of service” when it took over the mine from Glencore last November. “Under Glencore employees did not contribute a cent towards medical aid of dependants. Under Amplats it is the opposite,” Thobakgale claimed. An Amplats spokesperson said the employees were employed on terms and conditions that were on the whole not less favourable than the terms under which they had been employed by Glencore.
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