The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has 43 percent representation at Sibanye and two smaller unions have six percent, for a total of 49 percent against AMCU's 42 percent. The stakes are high as an AMCU strike at Sibanye – while its members were prevented from downing tools at other producers -could stoke labour tensions.
The Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union said members were attacked at Beatrix, a mine owned by Sibanye Gold.
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Motlanthe, who was tasked by President Jacob Zuma with leading talks between unions and mining companies, insisted on Wednesday that Amcu had agreed to the contents of the document and needed to consult its members. Amcu had said it needed to consult its members to get a mandate from them before it signed the agreement.
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Num denies losing members to Amcu The Num insists it has played a crucial part in the widespread industrial action in the mining industry. Anglo Platinum miners march, demanding better wages.
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Amcu loses argument in Constitutional Court. A collective agreement between the Chamber of Mines and the majority trade unions in the gold mining sector is also binding on members of the ...
The occasion was Amcu's attempt to extend the protected strike on Sibanye-Stillwater's goldmines to the rest of the mining industry in South Africa. Amcu's 15 000 members in the gold sector went out in mid-November last year over a R300 difference between the pay hike offered by the company (R700/month) and their demand (R1000/month).
"Amcu has the right to go on strike, but our concern is that they are doing that [while] intimidating our members," said NUM spokesperson Luphert Chilwane. ... The mining house said that ...
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has called on its members at Sibanye-Stillwater's platinum operations to again embark on a strike in support of those AMCU members ...
Mining union Amcu members to honour Marikana miners. eNCAnews. August 15, 2017 · [WATCH] Reporter Bongiwe Khumalo provides insight on mining union Amcu members honouring Marikana miners.
A handful of Amcu members sang outside Lonmin's offices in Melrose Arch, north of Johannesburg, on Tuesday, where the signing of an agreement to end the five-month platinum mining sector strike is ...
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Safety and security: a timeline of the AMCU strike at Sibanye-Stillwater. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) is one of South Africa's most influential mining unions, boasting a quarter of a million members and recently pushing gold miner Sibanye-Stillwater to agree to a new wage deal using a five-month strike.
The labour court has set aside the election of Joseph Mathunjwa as president of Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) at the union's congress held at Birchwood Hotel in ...
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The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) was formed in Mpumalanga, South Africa, in 1998 as a breakaway faction of the COSATU-affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). It was formally registered as a union in 2001. According to Mining Weekly, the union sees itself as distinct from NUM in that it is "apolitical and noncommunist".
ROSEBANK - Mining union Amcu has confirmed its members will go on strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's mines on Wednesday night. This strike follows a breakdown in wage negotiations between the union ...
S.Africa s AMCU says striking miners reject platinum wage . 29 04 2014 By Zandi Shabalala MARIKANA South Africa Reuters Members of South Africa s striking mining union AMCU have rejected the latest wage offer from the world s top three platinum producers its president said on Tuesday extending a crippling 14 week stoppage The members have rejected the offer from …
The mining sector's arch union rivals, NUM and Amcu, have a common cause: Strident opposition to the reopening of the mining sector in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. As the industry aims for ...
Data, insights and analysis delivered to you View all newsletters By the Mining Technology team Sign up to our newsletters Sign up here. While the AMCU was ultimately able to claim victory in the dispute, the group's legitimacy and political influence were undermined by accusations of violence committed by its striking members, and the group's increasingly …
It is thought this led to AMCU walking out of wage talks last week. At 30%, AMCU's membership in the sector has grown but it still leaves the National Union of Mineworkers as the majority union with 52% which is important because deals reached with the majority are generally imposed on other unions.
Therefore, Levy believes that, if AMCU capitalises on this victory, the union can grow "tremendously" and become a powerful force in …
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), one of the largest trade unions in South Africa's mining sector, has thousands of members at mines operated by companies including ...
"As AMCU we reject these plans and are preparing all our members for the mother of all struggles," he said. Mathunjwa did not say if AMCU, whose members have downed tools before to protest against planned job cuts, would strike, but he said the union would organise a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the seat of South Africa's ...
Members of Amcu have rejected the latest wage offer. File picture: Mike Hutchings. Amcu, the 'suicide bombers' of mining ... At the end of the mining sector's indifference and Amcu's ...
Mining union Amcu says the site where the Marikana miners were killed is not a space for political campaigning. 1282 days ago Amcu hits back at …
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The legal question was whether a collective agreement concluded between the Chamber of Mines (Chamber), on behalf of certain gold mining companies and the majority trade unions in the gold mining sector overall could be extended to bind the members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), even though AMCU had …