Lonmin Strike Is Over, South African Labor Mediator Says
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Lonmin Plc workers who led a strike at the third-largest platinum producer agreed to accept a revised pay offer and will return to work Sept. 20, ending an almost six-week stoppage.
“The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration can confirm that the strike at Lonmin’s Marikana mine has ended,” the Johannesburg-based labor mediator said in an e-mailed statement today. Worker representatives “have accepted Lonmin management’s latest offer and will return to work.” Unions and worker groups signed the deal in Mooinooi, northwest of Johannesburg, Afzul Soobedaar, senior commissioner at the CCMA told reporters.