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Northam says NUM demands ‘out of kilter’ as strike enters third month

6th January 2014

By: Natalie Greve

Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Northam Platinum is seeking to secure another meeting with the leadership of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) under the auspices of the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in an attempt to end the strike at its Zondereinde platinum mine, in Limpopo, which began on November 3 last year.

The union’s most recent demands, which it tabled at a CCMA meeting on December 7, amounted to an average increase of 16% in wages and a 69% increase in the living-out allowance.

The world’s fifth-largest platinum producer said in a statement on Monday that this remained unaffordable for the company and was “out of kilter” with the settlements reached in the gold sector and between unions and several other platinum producers.

According to Northam, the company had lost R500-million in revenue as a result of the strike, with the loss in wages for Zondereinde employees now having reached R100-million.

The NUM was not immediately available for comment.

Edited by Tracy Klückow
Creamer Media Contributing Editor

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