South Africa: Unions Express Alarm at Mine Closures James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 10 December 2015 South African trade unions expressed their "deep alarm" yesterday over 85,000 job cuts announced by mining giant Anglo American. Union federation COSATU called on the government to take action following Tuesday's "calamitous pronouncement" that the company plans to close mines around the world. Spokesman Sizwe Pamla pointed out that South Africa would be hardest hit as the firm employs 45,000 workers there. The country's vital minerals and energy industry is already in crisis with Lonmin - formerly Lonrho and previously owner of the infamous Marikana mine - already planning 6,000 redundancies. "These mining companies made profits in the last two decades and they spirited their profits out of the country to foreign banks and tax havens," Mr Pamla said, calling for their extraction licences to be revoked. "We cannot afford to have these mining companies continue to use this country as a badly managed casino, where they smash, grab and leave." From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-cd9f-South-Africa-Unions-express-alarm- at-mine-closures#.VmkW6Ep9600 -- -- 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.
