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Ann Crotty asks how the local mining industry can hope to win any argument with the government or labour when one of its leading players, Gold Fields, thinks nothing of paying its CEO almost 10% of annual profit? Source: Latest News
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Amcu’s push to change the gold sector’s labour system isn’t just about wages
Dewald van Rensburg writes that the push by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) for a fundamental shake-up of the gold sector’s labour system involves much more than wages. Source: Latest News
Trade union rivalry could set country on fire, says Solidarity’s Gideon du Plessis
Gideon du Plessis, general secretary of trade union Solidarity, writes that the intensity of rivalry and tension within the trade union world is mounting, and, against the background of a possible political strike by public service and municipal workers, it poses a threat to the fragile labour relations scene. Source:...
No end in sight to NUM’s Good Hope Construction strike
SABC News reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the Western Cape is seeking the intervention of the provincial government as the strike by members at Good Hope Construction enters its fourth week. Source: Latest News
Amcu wants R12 500 entry level wage at Aquarius Platinum by 2016
SABC News reports that Aquarius Platinum mine workers are demanding a monthly salary of R12 500 for entry level workers by 2016. Source: Latest News
Durban Metro to replace security workers with MK veterans
Sunday Independent reports that the ANC-controlled Durban Metro is letting go of workers in order to hire 113 former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) veterans, 39 of whom were convicted after 1994 of crimes including assault, drug-trafficking and theft. Source: Latest News
Mines minister says committee to look into mining job cuts
Fin24 reports that Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi said on Thursday he was alarmed at the rate of retrenchments in the mining sector and would set up a committee to look into the job losses. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on Saturday, 16 May and Sunday, 17 May 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Saturday, 16 May and Sunday, 17 May 2015. Source: Latest News
With Sadtu still selling school posts, it’s brought KZN education dept to ‘verge of collapse’
City Press writes that rogue members of the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) have “captured” the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) education department, which officials in Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s office say is now on the “verge of collapse”. Source: Latest News
Two firefighters die while fighting Joburg CBD blaze
News24 reports that two firefighters died while fighting a blaze at a building in Market Street in the early hours of Sunday morning, Johannesburg emergency services said. Source: Latest News