Morning Star.png South Africa: 30,000 Miners Strike Over Pay Demand World Desk, The Morning Star, London, 6 October 2015 Some 30,000 South African coalminers downed tools on Sunday night after cross-sector pay talks broke down. Conciliation came to an abrupt end last week when parties could not reach an agreement over demands by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) demand for a 1,000 rand (£48) rise for the lowest paid workers and 14 per cent for artisans, miners and officials. Firms including Anglo Coal and Glencore, the world’s largest mining company, are offering between 5 and 8.5 per cent pay rises. The NUM strongly condemned Anglo Coal for lying to its members by claiming that the strike had been suspended until next Monday. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has called a nationwide general strike tomorrow as part of the World Day for Decent Work. A central COSATU demand is for affordable and accessible public transport system. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b986-South-Africa-30,000-miners-strike -over-pay-demand#.VhNQl_mqqko> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b986-South-Africa-30,000-miners-strike- over-pay-demand#.VhNQl_mqqko -- -- 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.
