Morning Star.png South Africa: Miners' Leaders Denounce Jobs Atrocity The Morning Star, London, 7 August 2015 South African miners condemned the "carnage" of job losses yesterday after Anglo-Swiss mining giant Glencore announced 1,000 redundancies. Following a meeting of its national office holders in Johannesburg, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) accused the mining industry of unleashing a "jobs atrocity" against the working class. "The offensive is not only directed at the mineworkers but against the working-class families who rely on these breadwinners," the union said in a statement. "It is an attack that is intended to entrench the legacy of apartheid deprivation and colonialism which subjected African people to a permanent state of poverty." The union welcomed the government's intervention after it convened an urgent meeting on the crisis in the industry, which producers say is caused by a global slump in mineral prices. On Tuesday, the government suspended operations at Glencore's Optimum coalmine in Mpumalanga province. The NUM will hold wage negotiations today with goldmining bosses' association the Chamber of Mines. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-bda7-South-Africa-Miners-leaders-vent-f ury-at-slashing-of-1,000-jobs#.VcQrcfmqqko -- -- 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.
