BusinessLive reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) will embark on a strike at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations from the evening shift on Wednesday after failing to reach agreement with management over pay.
NUM acting general secretary William Mabapa said his union and Amcu served Sibanye with a 48-hour strike notice on Monday evening. “The strike starts [on Wednesday] night. All workers of Sibanye-Stillwater [gold operations] will be affected because Sibanye will implement a lockout,” Mabapa said. Sibanye’s gold operations — including Kloof, Driefontein, Beatrix and Cook, as well as support service operations — employ about 31,000 workers. NUM and Amcu are demanding a pay increase of R1,000 a month, or 6%, for each of the next three years (2022 to 2024). Solidarity has accepted the company’s revised wage and will not take part in the strike. Uasa’s Franz Stehring indicated on Tuesday that the union was still “talking with Sibanye management” and was not party to the strike notice. “We are still talking and the CCMA is facilitating our talks,” he said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive
- Read too the report at Moneyweb, which details Sibanye’s final offer
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