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NUM downs tools at Exxaro, plans strike at Rio Tinto unit

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) — More than 600 workers have downed tools at diversified miner Exxaro’s KwaZulu-Natal Sands (KZN Sands) operation, while more than 1 700 employees at Rio Tinto’s Richards Bay Minerals operation planned to start industrial action later this week. Employees at both companies were protesting over wage increases. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said that workers at KZN Sands were seeking wage increases of 14%, while the employer was offering 8%. “We further demand that the company should ban the use of labour brokers and offer a housing allowance of R2 000 a month,” said NUM KwaZulu-Natal regional coordinator Bhekani Ngcobo, adding that the strike would be indefinite. Meanwhile, workers at the Richards Bay Minerals operation had been granted a certificate of nonresolutMion by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and the union would, on Tuesday, serve Rio Tinto with a 48-hour notice to strike. More…

News selected by Covalence | Country: South Africa | company: Rio Tinto | Source: miningweekly.com

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