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/ 6 February 2012
A wage dispute at Impala Platinum has been resolved between it and the National Union of Mineworkers, leaving no need for the CCMA, the parties say.
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/ 2 February 2012
Impala Platinum has dismissed 13 000 employees, bringing to 17 200 those sacked since the start of a labour dispute almost two weeks ago.
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/ 1 February 2012
Eskom has been ordered to raise its wage increase to the National Union of Mineworkers by at least 1%.
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/ 25 January 2012
Impala Platinum Mine has dismissed 5 000 workers in Rustenburg after they embarked on a salary-related illegal strike, the company says.
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/ 24 January 2012
South Africa’s attractiveness for mining investment has plummeted dramatically since 2006, the latest South Africa Survey has shown.
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/ 19 January 2012
The NUM says media houses have sufficient legislation to express themselves but a vacuum exists when it comes to holding newspapers to account.
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/ 20 December 2011
The National Union of Mineworkers has urged First Uranium to fire its CEO after the mining company announced it might retrench 1800 mineworkers.
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/ 2 November 2011
The National Union of Mineworkers and Xstrata have reached an agreement on the mining group’s employee share ownership plan.
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/ 1 November 2011
NUM has reached a wage agreement with Exxaro Coal, which included the joining of its non-member operations to the Chamber of Mines by 2013.
The builders of Medupi Power Station are being accused of breaking promises.
Five international bidders are sniffing around SA’s biggest ever tender: an estimated R1-trillion contract to build six new nuclear reactors by 2030.
Mine workers are downing tools and marching to the Chamber of Mines in the Johannesburg CBD in protest against workplace safety conditions.
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/ 23 September 2011
Tensions between Cosatu’s National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metal Workers of SA have now spilled over to the SABC.
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/ 19 September 2011
A court ruling in favour of Eskom in a wage dispute shows it is aligned with the interests of big capital, the World Federation of Trade Unions says.
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/ 19 September 2011
The Labour Court has turned down an urgent application by NUM to stop Eskom from implementing a 7% unilateral wage increase.
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/ 18 September 2011
The Labour Court in Johannesburg is expected to rule on Monday on an urgent application brought against Eskom by the National Union of Mineworkers.
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/ 16 September 2011
Despite their campaign against Mswati’s despotic rule, Cosatu affiliates have been found to be involved in business deals with the Swazi king.
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/ 8 September 2011
NUM workers at Eskom are preparing to strike after wage talks failed, but Eskom says it is protected by its status as an essential service provider.
More than 16 000 Eskom workers are getting ready to strike after a deadlock in wage negotiations, says the National Union of Mineworkers.
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/ 1 September 2011
The NUM says Eskom’s "unilateral" implementation of a two-year, 7% wage agreement is a declaration of war, and it would put up a fight.
Platinum producer AngloPlatinum has improved its wage offer during talks with the National Union of Mineworkers last week.
SA’s National Union of Mineworkers members at Impala Platinum have rejected a revised pay rise offer, and are insisting on a double-digit increase.
Samwu and the NUM are continuing their strikes against their employers, leaving services, electricity supply and mining output in the lurch.
The NUM has blamed a lack of leadership by Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi for its row with Numsa.
The National Union of Mineworkers will meet negotiators in a bid to avert a wage strike that could hurt the world’s second largest producer.
The NUM is meeting with Impala Platinum to avoid a possible wage strike which could hurt the world’s second-largest platinum producer.
The NUM says wage talks with Eskom have collapsed and it will ask its members for a mandate to strike. But Eskom says downing tools would be illegal.
The National Union of Mineworkers and Impala Platinum are in talks to avoid a strike over wages that could affect global prices of the precious metal.
The strike in the coal industry has ended after agreement on wage increases ranging from 8%, depending on job category.
Striking coal and gold miners will meet the Chamber of Mines in a bid to end strikes that have cost the country tens of millions of dollars.
SA gold miners will down tools on Thursday, intensifying a wave of strikes and potentially costing the sector $25-million a day.
The coal strike currently under way will threaten the immediate ability to provide electricity, say the unions and state power company Eskom.