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Workers down tools at DRD’s Ergo mine

8th October 2013

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – About 600 workers at DRDGold’s Ergo gold operation, near Johannesburg, downed tools in a protected strike on Tuesday after the JSE-listed company refused to yield to last-minute union demands.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) made eleventh-hour demands that would more than double DRD’s wage bill, the company stated.

DRD’s two-year wage offer comprised a basic wage increase of 8% for employees in job categories 4 and 5, and a 7.5% hike for employees in categories 6 to 15. The company also offered a 10% increase in living-out allowances for 2013 and 2014.

This would add R19-million – an increase of 8.9% - to DRD’s yearly wage bill.

The union’s demand, which included that all entry-level, category 4 employees be promoted to category 6, as well as the extension, to all foremen, of a skills retention increase that had been allocated to engineering foremen, would increase DRD’s wage bill by a further 18.2%, to R43-million a year.

DRD said the operations were not affected by the industrial action.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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