The mine and unions are meeting in Boksburg under the auspices of the CCMA in a bid to resolve the strike following the intervention of Labour and Employment Minister Thulas Nxesi.
“It should have gone to the CCMA long before this, I quite honestly don’t know why it has dragged on for so long. The employer very simply has always to guarantee maximum profitability, and that means the greatest amount of, if you wish, exploitation of the cost, and one of the costs of course is labour. In this particular instance, you also have a situation of the commodities boom, and the miners have gotten I think, legitimately rather annoyed about not getting a fair share.
So I get R10000 per month & I strike 3 months and get R1000 per month for a yr = R12000 but lose R30000 no work no pay. In 2nd year R11600 & in 3rd year R9000. Total 32600. R2600÷36 = R72.22 increment per month for 3 years.