Sep 04, 2013· South Africa's main mining union has offered to compromise on some of its demands for higher pay after launching a strike that hit production at most of the country's gold mines on Wednesday. The stoppage called by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began at the evening shift on Tuesday, with many miners refusing to go underground ...
Sep 06, 2013· By Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Some South African gold miners have ended their strike for higher wages and were heading back to work after just three days, bolstering confidence the strike could be formally called off on Friday. This would be a relief to Africa's largest economy, hit by strikes across a range of sectors including auto making, …
Nov 22, 2018· One Killed as South Africa Gold Mine Strike Turns Violent Representative Image (Photo: Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo) Called by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), the strike began late on Wednesday, shutting down all of Sibanye's mines which employ some 32,000 people, in the latest test for the country's struggling mining ...
South African gold miners go on strike - BBC News. 4/9/2013 Some 80,000 gold miners in South Africa have gone on a strike to call for higher pay, but their union has significantly scaled down its demands. The National Union of . More
Nov 05, 2012· Behind the Marikana Massacre and the Wave of "Illegal" Strikes in South Africa's Mines. November 18, 2012 ... a contingent of miners marched to the local office of the National Union of Mineworkers in Marikana to demand that the NUM take up their call for a strike. These workers, mainly men, work 800 to 1,000 meters underground and earn between ...
Sep 06, 2013· AS South African gold miners nationwide walked out on Tuesday, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) released a statement noting the “devastating" impact the strike will have on the economy.
The strike is on," Mbuyiseli Hibana, NUM regional secretary general, told AFP. Hibana estimated that around 14,000 miners had downed tools in the gold mining town of Carletonville, south …
Sep 16, 2021· A mineworker dies at Harmony's Gold's Mponeng Mine yesterday. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) notes that there has been a fatality at Harmony's Gold Mponeng Mine in the Carletonville region through what is reported to be a "fall of ground".
Sep 08, 2013· A South African gold miners' strike has ended after workers at Harmony Gold accepted a final wage offer, the country's second-largest producer of …
Aug 31, 1987· More than 250,000 black miners agreed today to end South Africa's largest and costliest strike after three weeks. The gold and coal miners failed to win any improvement over a pre-strike wage ...
Apr 29, 2019· The five-month strike by gold miners at Sibanye-Stillwater has halted with the announcement that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) had accepted the same wage offer that its three rival unions – the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Solidarity and Uasa – accepted in October.
Nov 23, 2017· South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has agreed a three-year wage agreement with coal producers, averting a sector-wide strike that could have impacted power supply, the union said ...
Thousands of miners in South Africa's gold sector downed tools on Tuesday as a fresh wave of industrial unrest hit the struggling mining sector in Africa's largest economy.. The strike was ...
May 22, 2019· At Orkney, in South Africa's North West province, gold miners are staging a sit-in strike nearly 3km underground against a wage decision made by the troubled mine's Chinese owners. They have ...
Nov 01, 2018· NYSE-and JSE-listed Gold Fields on 31 October received a notice by the National Union of Mineworkers of its intention to embark on a protected strike at its South Deep operation in South Africa to protest retrenchments at the mine.. The strike is set to commence on the afternoon of 2 November 2018. About 80% of the mine's workforce are members of the union and, should the strike …
Oct 04, 2015· Over 30,000 workers are expected to walk picket lines starting at 18:00 local time, DW Akademie reported.. NUM wants a 14 percent increase in wages for miners and officials plus a 13 to 14 percent ...
Mar 31, 2021· NUM demands 15% salary increase from Eskom and gold mines. Speaking in Johannesburg, NUM acting general secretary William Mabapa said they will be negotiating for a 15% salary increase at Eskom ...
Aug 31, 2013· South Africa gold miners prepare to strike. At least 120,000 miners will embark on sector-wide strike on Tuesday, after collapse of wage talks, unions say.
The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to challenge not only their employers, but the racist policies of the segregationist state of Jan Smuts.
Sep 05, 2013· A strike by tens of thousands of South African gold miners for higher pay has severely affected production in the struggling industry. Producers grouped in the Chamber of Mines said output at 16 ...
Sep 03, 2013· South Africa: Gold Miners to Strike SAPA, 3 September 2013. Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the gold sector will down tools on their night shift on Tuesday, the union said.
Sep 28, 2013· A National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) gold miners' strike in September lasted only three days, raising hopes that stoppages in other sectors may not be protracted. But AMCU is unhappy with the 8-percent gold miners' pay hikes and may call further action.
Amcu's lethal turf war with the ANC-aligned National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) would rumble on, and Amcu would lead a dramatic five-month strike in 2014 against the platinum sector. Gold and other sectors would also be rocked by labour unrest.
Sep 04, 2013· Close. Some 80,000 gold miners in South Africa have gone on a strike to call for higher pay, but their union has significantly scaled down its demands. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is ...
Jun 11, 2021· Gold Fields South Deep gold mine has struck a three-year wage agreement with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the United Association of South Africa (UASA), in a deal that took place outside normal collective wage bargaining.
South African gold miners went on strike on Thursday, becoming the latest workers in Africa's largest economy to take industrial action over wages.. The action, which was scheduled to …
Sep 03, 2013· The union, which represents about 64% of South Africa's 120,000 gold miners, said it rejected "with contempt slave wages as represented by an increase of a meagre 6.5% or R300 (£18.68) per month".
Sep 05, 2013· The AMC government-allied National Union of Miners, which represents 64 percent of the approximately 120,000 gold miners in South Africa, declared the strike after rejecting a 6.5 percent wage ...
Oct 02, 2020· South African union threatens strike at coal and diamond mines. JOHANNESBURG, Oct 2 (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) threatened on Friday to call a strike at mining companies De Beers, Exxaro and Petra Diamonds after failing to reach wage agreements. NUM, one of the biggest mining unions in South Africa…
Introduction: Background to the Strike. The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the various groups in the four former colonies. The union was a victory for the British – especially for the 'uitlanders' (foreigners) and mining magnates – who wanted to unite the country; but it was a defeat for Afrikaners such as ...
Aug 11, 2005· Fitch Ratings-Johannesburg/London-11 August 2005: Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, says today that the widespread strike by miners belonging to South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers ("NUM") has come at a bad time for the country's gold producers who are emerging from two difficult years of sharply lower earnings and even losses …
Aug 30, 2013· South African gold miners will begin a mass strike on Tuesday after rejecting government offers of a 6% wage increase. Demanding an extortionate 60% pay rise, members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are set to cause huge disruption to one of South Africa's most important industries.
Dec 04, 2007· South African miners strike over dangerous conditions. A rise in deadly accidents in South Africa's mining industry prompted tens of thousands of miners to stage a strike on Tuesday, calling for ...
Sep 07, 2013· The end of the gold miners' strike is yet another betrayal of the South African working class by the trade unions, in this case the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM…
Sep 10, 2012· New strike hits South African gold mine. Mine workers take part in a march at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa on Sept. 10, 2012. This article was published more than 9 years ago. Some ...
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which represents two thirds of the workers in the country's gold mines, called for stoppages …