The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Monday its members at Impala Platinum had ended a strike at the company’s biggest mine, and would resume work during the Monday night shift.
The strike over pay at the world’s number two producer of the precious metal started on August 24, and has so far cost the company more than 20 000 platinum ounces.
”The strike is over, we have decided the workers will resume tonight [Monday]. Basically the wage offer from Impala has been accepted,” the NUM’s spokesperson, Lesiba Seshoka, told Reuters.
The NUM had said earlier on Monday it planned to meet some of the 20 000 striking workers to persuade them to abandon their strike and go to work because it was unlikely that Implats would improve on its offer to raise wages by 10%. — Reuters