South Africa Mining Union Unhappy With 13% Gold Pay Offer
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South African gold-mining companies’ above-inflation wage offers of as much as 13 percent are “poles apart” from workers’ demands for an 80 percent increase, according to the National Union of Mineworkers.
“As far as the increase in wages is concerned, they are very far from what we are demanding,” NUM General Secretary David Sipunzi said in Johannesburg after negotiations Monday. “The indication is that we might not even meet halfway with the employers and therefore they are pushing us towards a strike.”