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NUM deputy to address mass meeting

───   NOMAQHAWE MTEBELE 16:00 Tue, 26 Sep 2017

NUM deputy to address mass meeting | News Article
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National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) deputy president, Joseph Montisetsi, will be addressing a mass meeting of workers in Koffiefontein today.


This comes after the union held a strike at Petra Diamonds’ Koffiefontein mine. NUM served a strike notice to the mining company last week. Negotiations between the two failed after NUM demanded a 10% wage increase across the board for a period of three years. The union is holding another strike where 67 miners were holding an underground sit-in at Finsch mine in the Northern Cape. According to NUM’s Livhuwani Mammburu, workers also want housing and medical subsidies, among other demands…

“They are already on strike so our members are on strike indefinitely until Petra Diamonds comes on board and gives what our members are demanding,” explains Mammburu.

According to a statement from NUM, the mining company had refused those striking underground at Finsch mine access to their chronic medication last week.


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