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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) would consult with its members at Impala Platinum (Implats) on Tuesday to decide when to start industrial action.
This was after the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) had issued a certificate of nonresolution to the NUM members at the weekend.
Implats and the NUM had started mediation talks at the CCMA earlier this month. A new one-year wage deal was supposed to have come into effect as of July 1.
The union was demanding a 10% across-the-board increase in wages, while the platinum miner was offering an 8% increase in wages for category A and B employees.
However, the union was less concerned over the wage increase than it was about provident fund contributions and housing allowances.
The NUM negotiator at Implats, Eddie Majadibodu, said that the miner believed that the 8% wage increase would cover the provident fund and housing allowance costs, but highlighted that the union did not agree.
“We may not be married to the percentage increment, but on [the] harmonisation of provident funds and the housing allowances, we are immovable property,” he added.
Implats spokesperson Bob Gilmour said that the company would reserve comment until the NUM members have completed their vote on the industrial action.
Last year, a two-week strike over wages cost the JSE-listed company more than 20 000 platinum ounces at its Rustenburg operations.
