SOME 18000 Anglo American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) workers embarked on strike action at two if its mines on Wednesday. Striking workers, organised by the Mouthpeace Workers Union, came out on strike at the Rustenburg and Union platinum mines, to protest management’s insistence that National Union of Mineworkers be included in a task team to investigate Mouthpeace’s ongoing demand that Amplats’ provident fund be paid out to workers and a new fund be set up. Mouthpeace spokesman Pogiso Bothomane said the NUM should be excluded from the negotiations because they continue to oppose paying out the provident fund to workers.