Platinum Union Agrees on Proposal to End Four-Month Strike
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The union whose strike has paralyzed production at the world’s three largest platinum companies has agreed to the employers’ plan that may end a more than four-month pay strike.
“In principle they agree,” Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union President Joseph Mathunjwa said today at an Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. meeting with miners. While workers’ acceptance of the proposal is “a breakthrough,” they have conditions to their assent relating to issues including back pay, the length of the agreement, reinstatement of jobs and living-out allowances, he said. The leader also met with employees at Anglo American Platinum Ltd. and Lonmin Plc.