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NUM, Northam head back to CCMA

4th December 2013

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Platinum group metals miner Northam Platinum and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) would head back to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in the hopes that the facilitated talks would unlock the current wage hike impasse.

The CCMA initiated the second round of talks on Thursday, as negotiations between the NUM and Northam deadlock amid a continuing month-long strike at the miner’s Zondereinde mine.

The first CCMA-led talks failed in October, after which the union declared a strike.

The protracted strike had, to date, cost Northam R360-million in lost revenue and employees R50-million in lost basic wages.

There was still “a bit of a distance” between what the NUM was demanding and what Northam was offering, Northam spokesperson Memory Johnstone told Mining Weekly Online.

Both parties have stated that they were “open” to further negotiations; however, Northam said it had revised its wage offer three times – and had tabled its final offer – while the union had yet to budge on its demands.

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