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FROM NEGOTIATION TO 'NOGOTIATION'

14th March 2014

By: Darlene Creamer

  

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Negotiation has become a no-go zone in the latest stillborn round of platinum-industry wage talks, which have degenerated into the no-win nether regions of ‘nogotiation’, where the starting point of a union pay demand is also its finishing point, after more than 300 000 oz of precious platinum potential has been sent down the drain. The R12 500-a-month starting point of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) remained the union’s finishing point, six weeks later. This caused the statutory Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) mechanism to buckle under the strain and AMCU to take to the streets, marching to South Africa’s seat of government power to hand over a memorandum of protest to President Jacob Zuma himself. Ultra-care must now be taken to prevent this no-win madness from getting out of hand as it moves from the sophistication of the CCMA’s corridors of reconciliation to the rough-and-tumble of South Africa’s unpredictable streets.

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