NUMSA to Present Xstrata's Revised Wage Offer to its Members 22 October 2011
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has been in serious discussions to intensify its strike action at Xstrata. Early this afternoon, 22 October 2011, after serious and high level discussions led by our General Secretary, Comrade Irvin Jim, forced the Xstrata ruling oligarchy to apply cool heads and soberness, and a revised wage settlement offer worth to be considered by our members was tabled. The National Offices Bearers (NOB’s) of NUMSA then saw its fit to exercise leadership by instructing our members at Xstrata to converge next week Monday 24 October 2011, Rusternburg CBD, North-West province. The mandate of the planned gathering will be to present the revised offer from the employers for our members’ consideration. The gathering to be led by Regional leadership and Shopstewards will allow our members through a democratic and transparent process to engage the offer with an intention of either accepting or rejecting it. This exercise is a true expression of worker control and people’s power in action. The revised offer will only be communicated publicly once our members are privy and informed about it in detail. This does not mean the strike action has been suspended, neither does it gives Xstrata a profit-driven license to coerce our members to report back for work on Monday. Xstrata is duty bound to allow internal processes to unfold without any undue interference, any failure by Xstrata to heed this warning, they will face hostile resistance from our members through militant action on the streets. We call on our members at Xstrata to attend the planned gathering in order to engage with the revised offer. Workers are requested to converge outside Rusternburg Taxi rank. Contact: Irvin Jim, General Secretary - 073 157 6384 Or Castro Ngobese, National Spokesperson, 073 299 1595 Sent from my iPad -- 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] .
