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BusinessLive reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union’s (Amcu’s) elective congress heard on Thursday that threats of a total shutdown of SA’s mining industry and other sectors could have pushed the labour registrar to ditch his plans to deregister the union.
However, labour relations registrar Lehlohonolo Molefe has denied ever being threatened by the union. In March, Molefe issued a notice of intention to deregister Amcu, saying the union had violated its own constitution. On Thursday, Joseph Maqhekeni, a former president of the National Council of Trade Unions, told Amcu’s elective conference in Boksburg that when Molefe made known his plans to deregister Amcu, he had called high-ranking officials in the department of labour and employment and told them not to deregister Amcu. He also revealed that the Amcu leadership told the labour registrar that “if you dare deregister Amcu, the mines and other industries will come to a standstill”. However, on Thursday Molefe indicated that he had not been threatened by the Amcu leadership from going ahead with his plan to deregister the organisation. “Not at all, they have made written representations as prescribed by the LRA.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive
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