NUM5.jpg NUM Press Statement, 22 July 2015 NUM Women Members to march against retrenchments at Glencore's Optimum Coal Mine The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Optimum Coal Mine branch in Mpumalanga will march against women retrenchments by Glencore. Bridget Mahlangu, NUM Optimum Coal Mine Deputy Secretary of the branch said Glencore promised to consider employment equity when they retrench. "Unfortunately right now Glencore is retrenching 628 employees and the company said it will not consider employment equity. We are also shocked because the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) is also silent. We strongly believe that these retrenchments will impact negatively on women. A lot of women had already been given retrenchments letters to work until July 31," Mahlangu said. "We will be wearing torn up old clothes, no make-up on and messy hair in order to demonstrate the amount of poverty that Glencore is subjecting us to with these retrenchments," she added. The march will take place as follows: . Date: 22 July 2015 (Wednesday) . Time: 08h00 . Venue: Optimum Colliery premises The NUM is extremely worried about a bloodbath of job losses in the mining industry. The mineworkers are under attack by these ruthless and heartless mining companies. As the NUM, we believe that these mining companies do not care at all about the mineworkers. They only care about profits. For more information, please contact: Bridget Mahlangu, NUM Optimum Coal Mine Deputy Secretary, 076 865 7490 or 071 516 1236 Livhuwani Mammburu, Acting NUM National Spokesperson, 083 809 3257 The National Union of Mineworkers 7 Rissik Street Cnr Frederick Johannesburg Tel: 011 377 2111 Cell: 083 809 3257 Web: www.num.org.za Twitter: @Num_Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NUM/100860023402167 -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
