NUM and AMCU members who have been on strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold operations since March 9, hold placards as they stage a protest outside the company's Kloof Mine, in the southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 25, 2022.NUM and AMCU members who have been on strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold operations since March 9, hold placards as they stage a protest outside the company's Kloof Mine, in the southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, March 25, 2022.
The unions, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union had agreed on a after almost three months of strike action. However, they did not sign an agreement as some finer aspects of the deal were still being negotiated.Sibanye, which also mines platinum group metals in South Africa and the United States of America had said on Friday that certain terms in the draft agreement had not been agreed by the parties and as a result they were not allowed to return to work.
Sibanye had locked out its employees from its gold operations since the beginning of the strike in early March. “The wage agreement, signed late in the early hours of Saturday morning, ends a three month strike first called by the NUM and AMCU on March 8,” said NUM in a statement.