Morning Star.png Miners Win Higher Pay and Right to Strike The Morning Star, London, 13 August 2016 South African miners celebrated yesterday after winning their demands for higher pay and the right to strike, a few days after staging a mass walkout from electricity provider Eskom. The National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) 15,000 members at the firm walked out on Wednesday over wages and to defend its right to strike against long-standing legislation banning walkouts in essential services. The union signed a two-year wage agreement with management in the small hours of yesterday morning. That included an 8.5 per cent rise for all pay grades except the lowest, who will get 10 per cent, and an increase in housing allowance from 2,600 rand (£149) to 3,000 rand (£170) over two years. NUM Eskom chief negotiator Helen Diatile said the union was happy that “Eskom has acknowledged that the apartheid wage (gap) that exists within the company will be eliminated with specific timelines.” Female workers will also benefit from five months’ paid maternity leave, while employee death payouts will total 20,000 rand (£1,150) for spouses and 15,000 rand (£850) for children under 21. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-5b90-South-Africa-Miners-win-higher-pay -and-right-to-go-on-strike#.V66zyPl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13954 (20160812) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001101d1f529%24df62e680%249e28b380%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
