November 5, 2018. Share this article. South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has launched a strike at Gold Fields ' South Deep operation to protest against the company's plan to cut around 1,100 jobs at the mine. The proposed cuts will make a third of the total workforce redundant. Around 80% of the workers at the mine are ...
About 447 miners at Gold One Modder East mine, Springs, have not resurfaced since Thursday night's shift in an alleged sit-in protest against dismissals. Ziyaad Hassam, head of legal at Gold One ...
NUM and Amcu, the two biggest mine unions in SA, have demanded an increase of R1,000 per month over the next three years, similar to the amount Sibanye's rival Harmony Gold agreed to pay last year ...
Collectively, they are asking for a monthly pay increase of 1,000 rand ($65) for workers in Sibanye's gold mines. The deal would run over each of the next three years.
NUM represented mainly Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the Chamber of Mines. Approximately 360 000 Black miners went on strike over wage and …
NUM and Amcu will strike from tonight at Sibanye-Stillwater operations in the Free State and Gauteng. "NUM is determined to pursue its demand for an increase of R1 00 for surface, underground ...
AFP. By Rédaction Africanews. Last updated: 05/05/2022. South Africa. Striking miners at South Africa's second largest gold producer, Sibanye-Stillwater, …
num south africa gold mines strike The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, Aug 31, 2012 0183 32 Around 12,000 workers have downed tools at a South African gold mine in a wildcat strike, their employer Gold Fields said Friday Employees of the East Section of the KDC Gold Mine on the West Rand Johannesburg in South …
Image: Moeletsi Mabe. Members of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and United Association of South Africa (UASA) voted 62% in favour of a strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold mines ...
Two South African trade unions have signed a three-year wage agreement with miner Sibanye Stillwater on June 11, one of the unions said on Sunday, removing the last hurdle to restarting operations ...
In 2021, expenses climbed by 7% to $1,749 an ounce, while gold output rose 10% to about 892,000 ounces. A strike at Sibanye's gold operations in 2019 ended after five months, with workers ...
SA's Sibanye-Stillwater said on Thursday it had stopped operations at its gold mines after unions began a strike over wages. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Association of Mineworkers ...
The strike over safety follows one for higher pay. With global minerals prices on the rise, miners won raises of up to 10 per cent this year, but the average miner still earns about R3,500 ($500 ...
Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) have been on strike at Sibanye's gold operations since March 9, demanding an ...
The historically dominant NUM started losing members to AMCU more than a decade ago, highlighted by a strike led by the upstart union at Lonmin Plc's Marikana operations in 2012 that led to 34 ...
The National Union of Mineworkers has embarked on an appeals process for workers dismissed at Gold One Mine. This following the dismissal of 401 miners, a number that has since jumped to 445. The workers are charged with, amongst others, staging an illegal sit-in at the underground gold mine in Springs last year.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hundreds of workers at Gold One mine east of Johannesburg have embarked on a strike demanding the employer to expedite the balloting process for the new majority union.. A portion of the workforce at the mine is advocating for the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to be …
Amcu has accused Gold One bosses of colluding with NUM, an allegation the mine denies. NUM was founded in 1982 by former labour unionist Cyril Ramaphosa, who is currently South Africa's president ...
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has launched a strike at Gold Fields' South Deep operation to protest against the company's plan to cut …
Introduction. 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.
On 12 August 1946 African mine workers of the Witwatersrand went on strike in support of a demand for higher wages - 10 shillings a day. They continued the strike for a week in the face of the most savage police …
The agreement comes after a three-month strike and concludes negotiations in the gold sector that began last year. The collective agreement is for three years, and miners and artisans as well as officials will get an increase of 5 per cent or R1000 (US$62) to the standard rate of monthly pay in the first year, 5.5 per cent or R900 (US$56) in ...
NUM said that they will down tools on Friday after Gold Fields announced that they were letting go of 1 100 workers from its South Deep operation.
In June 2021, Gold Fields's South Deep gold mine reached a three-year settlement with Uasa and NUM which averages out at 6.5% over the full period of the agreement.
NUM noted the government' commitments announced during SONA last week to further advance and better the lives of all South Africans. NUM Admin posted on 2/11/2024 8:15:00 AM. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has noted with much caution the government commitments announced in the State of the Nation Address …
More than 2,000 workers have remained underground Tuesday, Dec. 19 in two shafts at Implats' Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine in the North West province of South Africa for a second day in a protest over pay and benefits. There were two recent …
Pic: AP. At least 500 workers are being held down a South African gold mine by a rival union, according to the head of the site. The incident began when miners from the opposing, unregistered ...