AMCU to meet with members to discuss companies’ response
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The leaders of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) would meet with union members at 11:00 on Monday at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, in Rustenburg, to discuss the platinum producers’ response to the union’s latest demands along with other issues, AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa told Mining Weekly Online.
In a written response to Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), Impala Platinum (Implats) and Lonmin, last week, AMCU stated that it had additional demands that had to be met before the strike, which was currently in its twenty-second week, could end.
These demands included a R3 000 “come-back bonus” and a moratorium on all restructuring and retrenchments.
The platinum producers said in a joint statement last week that the new demands were “unaffordable”, adding that the come-back bonuses would set them back a combined R1-billion in addition to the higher wages as set out in the “in principle” agreements reached between the union and the companies.
“[The counter offer by the producers] is part of the agenda [of the meeting] but there are other issues [to be discussed] as well,” Mathunjwa said, declining to elaborate on what the other matters were.
Eye Witness News on Monday morning reported that AMCU’s leadership had said that a breakthrough had been made on a possible settlement; however, accepting the new offer would be up to the union members.
The platinum producers said in a statement that they expected to receive feedback from AMCU once the mass meeting had been concluded.
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