Mining Weekly reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), along with other trade unions in the gold mining sector, plans to take Sibanye-Stillwater to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) over a wage dispute at the miner’s gold operations.

Sibanye is the only company in the sector that has been unable to reach agreement with trade unions on the wage increases for the coming three years. On Tuesday, AMCU said it was “a similar situation” when compared to the previous round of wage negotiations in 2018, which eventually led to a five-month protracted strike which spilled over into 2019. At the time, all other companies had also reached settlements with trade unions, but Sibanye had not. Sibanye’s latest offer for surface and underground workers is R400 for the first year of the agreement, and 3.4% for artisans, miners and officials. This is in stark contrast to the R1,000 agreement reached with Harmony Gold, which at 40,000 is the biggest employer in the gold mining sector .

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