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BL Premium reports that in a final attempt to try to break a wage deadlock, the CCMA will on Monday facilitate a meeting between Sibanye-Stillwater management and a coalition of three mining unions that have voted to strike for higher wages at the company’s gold operations.
William Mabapa of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) indicated that the intervention was a final attempt by the CCMA to see if the parties could reach an agreement before going on a strike. But he added that, while the coalition of mining unions including the NUM, Uasa and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) would attend the meeting, they remained resolute about downing tools if no favourable agreement could be reached. “If there is no better offer on the table to try to resolve the wage impasse by Monday, then we will proceed to serve the company with a 48-hour strike notice on the same day so that our industrial action can start by Thursday,” said Mabapa. The meeting on Monday comes after the CCMA presided over a balloting process that saw workers belonging to NUM and Uasa voting for a strike last Tuesday. Amcu members also voted for a strike, but by a show of hands. Meantime, Solidarity has accepted the company’s revised wage offer of a R700 monthly wage increase and a R100 increase in the living out allowance for three years for so-called ‘Category 4 to 8 employees’ and 5% a year over the course of the multiyear agreement for so-called ‘artisans, miners and officials’. Amcu, NUM, and Uasa remain steadfast in their demand for an increase of R1,000 a month or 6%. Spokespersons for the company said: “We made it clear that we are not going to increase the offer.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
- Read too, CCMA intervenes to avert strike at gold mines, at The Citizen
- And also, Workers vote for a strike at Sibanye's gold mines, at Fin24
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