SOUTH AFRICA: UNION NEWS & VIEWS South African union bureaucrats seek to break strike by platinum miners ... The Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) issued a statement March 11 urging the employers and police to break the platinum miners’ strike -led by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) that began on January 23. The statement read, “COSATU calls on the employers and the South African Police Service (SAPS) to devise some safe way for the workers in the platinum mines to go back to work - and start earning salaries for themselves and their families.” It continued, “We call on those workers to approach their employer and demand their work back as we prepare to engage the mine management on their request.” @ wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/17/safr-m17.html Numsa seeks support for strike plan ... South Africas biggest union has called a one-day strike for Wednesday - to highlight youth unemployment in the country, where one in four people are jobless, the union said. @ iol.co.za/business/news/numsa-seeks-support-for-strike-plan-1.1662124#.Uya7afR5NlQ Carol Paton: Platinum strike is no run-of-the-mill wage dispute ... AFTER more than seven weeks, the labour dispute on the platinum belt has passed the point at which most strikes are broken. Workers are settling in for a long strike, with as many as half of them having departed for their rural homes where they have fields and livestock and can live on little. With no movement among the parties and talks rocky after Chamber of Mines negotiator Elize Strydom publicly castigated the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), where does the strike go to now? @ bdlive.co.za/national/labour/2014/03/17/platinum-strike-is-no-run-of-the-mill-wage-dispute
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:17:30 +0000
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