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Gold sector wage negotiations to start July 11

28th June 2013

By: Natalie Greve

Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Centralised wage negotiations between gold producers represented by the South African Chamber of Mines (CoM) and trade unions the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Solidarity and Uasa will begin on July 11.

This would follow a pre-negotiation workshop on the current state of the gold sector, which will determine the process and procedures for the wage negotiations, on July 8.

The gold producers collectively represented by the CoM are AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Rand Uranium, Harmony Gold, Pan African Resources, Sibanye Gold and Village Main Reef.

The currently agreed entry-level wage is between R4 350 and R4 439 for surface employees, which constitute 15% of all employees, and R5 000 for underground employees, which constitute the remaining 85%.

The chamber confirmed that it had received wage demands for 2013 from all four representative unions, which propose the following:

• In addition to several other high-cost items, the NUM proposed a surface entry-level salary of R7 000 a month and an underground and opencast entry-level salary of R8 000 a month.
• AMCU, which submitted its wage demands to the chamber on June 25, proposed, in addition to other high-cost items, a minimum entry-level wage of R11 500 for surface workers and R12 500 for underground surface workers. This excluded accommodation, bonuses and benefits.
• Solidarity proposed a wage increase of 14% and increases to various other benefits.
• Uasa proposed a wage increase of 18%.

The CoM said that, at the centralised level, it “appeared” that the NUM represented around 64.3% of employees in the relevant bargaining unit, AMCU represented around 17.2%, Uasa represented 6.9%, Solidarity represented 2.4%, while 8.9% had no union affiliation.

Edited by Mariaan Webb
Creamer Media Contract Publishing Editor

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