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NUM reportedly seeks 37% pay hike in gold sector over 2 years
The demands far exceed the current inflation rate of 3.8% and suggest potentially tough negotiations with companies that have been battling to contain soaring...
Details are sketchy but it’s understood miners are demanding that their employer addresses issues around long service awards.
Workers in the gold mining industry have rejected the initial wage offer of between 4,5 and six percent.
The union is hopeful a strike by more than 2,000 members will be called off after a mass meeting today.
More than 2,000 workers will found out if they face disciplinary action after going on a wildcat strike.
The mining union will sign a three-year wage agreement with Royal Bafokeng Platinum today.
NUM says the man was targeted for leaving Amcu to rejoin the NUM.
Harmony Gold's James Duncan says the bodies were discovered this morning.