*NUMSA Ends BHP Billiton Industrial Action* *16 December 2010*
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (*Numsa*) National Office Bearers (NOB's) led by the General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary Cde(s) Irvin Jim and Karl Cloete respectively held wage negotiations with the BHP Billiton with an intention to brokering a settlement to end the nine (9) day industrial action by our militant and fighting members. The industrial action by our conscious and united members forced the employer to come back to the table with a revised and better offer for settlement. This has re-affirmed that Numsa is a genuine representative of the workers at the point of production and society broadly. The employer's revised offer to Numsa is a pinch of salt to Solidarity, who settled with the employer at the start of the dispute at 7.5%. This is a lesson that the continued fragmentation of the workers undermines its power and unity to confront the logic of capital and ruling class. We are making a plea and not a command to those members to join Numsa in line with Cosatu's commitment of one industry, one union and one country and one federation. The new and revised offer has been presented to our members at BHP Billiton. We are pleased that the offer was subjected into a democratic process and was unanimously accepted by the Numsa members who were on strike. The offer is in line with our struggle for equal distribution of wealth at the point of production. The settlement offer is as follows; · Year 1 - 8% · Year 2 - CPI + 2% · Year 3 - CPI + 2% Other matters related to the settlement, such as the phasing out of labour brokering, fulltime Health and Safety Numsa Shopstewards and Medical Aid will be processed and finalised within 6 months. Contact: *Irvin Jim, General Secretary - 073 157 63 84* Or *Karl Cloete, Deputy General Secretary - 083 389 0777* -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
