Loading ...South Africa’s long-divided mining unions are forging a united front against the industry’s largest employer as they declared a dispute over wage negotiations with Sibanye Stillwater Ltd.
The National Union of Mineworkers, Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, UASA and Solidarity will hold an unprecedented joint press conference over their issues with the company on Oct. 1, the labor groups said Wednesday in a statement. Collectively, they are asking for a monthly pay increase of 1,500 rand ($100) for workers in Sibanye’s gold mines. The deal would run over each of the next three years.
South Africa’s rival unions unite in dispute over gold miner pay