By SAPA –
Platinum workers are dissatisfied with the wage agreement that ended the five-month strike within the sector, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Wednesday.
“What is the effect of the platinum settlement? What we have observed is that in the sector, the three mines [Impala Platinum, Anglo American Platinum, and Lonmin], there is dissatisfaction,” NUM general secretary Frans Baleni said. “You might have seen a decline of membership of the majority union [the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union] in all three mines.”
Baleni was speaking to reporters following a meeting of the union’s national office bearers in Johannesburg. “People are saying, ‘We are not happy about this’. It meant having lost so many days of income and you actually lost in terms of other benefits where they’d been frozen with no increase,” he said.
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