Union Agrees to Wage Deal With Sibanye Gold, Avoiding Strike
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South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union agreed to a wage increase with Sibanye Gold Ltd., avoiding a planned strike at the country’s largest producer of bullion.
AMCU members, who make up more than 40 percent of about 46,000 Sibanye employees, voted to accept the offer by a show of hands at Sibanye’s Driefontein operations near Carletonville, west of Johannesburg, on Sunday. The deal includes improved wage increases for three years and will apply to all the company’s workers, AMCU President Joseph Mathunjwa said in an interview.