miners strike deal in south africa

Marikana miners strike for better wages, 2012 | Global ...

The miners would receive a 22% raise and a payment of 2,000 Rand. This was one of the best deals ever won by striking South African miners, but still fell well below their original demands. The miners returned to work on 20 September. However, the Marikana strike sparked a number of protests across South Africa in the coming months.

Q&A: Legal implications for S African miners | Business ...

Work at Lonmin PLC, the world's third largest platinum mine operator, has slowed drastically at its Marikana location in South Africa for more than a month now. Trouble began at the mine when three thousand Rock Drill Operators (RDO) embarked on an armed, unprotected strike on August 10, demanding a pay raise to R12,500 ($1,500) per month.

Sibanye-Stillwater issues urgent appeal to avert strike ...

Sibanye-Stillwater has issued an urgent appeal to its South Africa gold employees to avert strike action, ahead of a meeting today over stalled wage talks. The company (JSE: SSW) said the unions ...

What's behind South Africa's mine violence? - CNN

South African miners killed during strike – A policeman gestures in front of some of the miners after they were shot. 34 workers were killed in the ... but key unions had not agreed to the deal.

South African miners return to work after wage deal - BBC News

Thousands of miners at South Africa's biggest platinum mining firms have returned to work, a day after unions signed a wage deal to end a five-month strike. Employees at Anglo America Platinum ...

Miners end South Africa gold strike with wage deal ...

Miners end South Africa gold strike with wage deal Published: Aug. 2, 2011 at 2:04 p.m. ET

South Africa's NUM union signs three-year wage deal in ...

South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has agreed a three-year wage agreement with coal producers, averting a sector-wide strike that could have impacted power supply, the union said ...

Striking South African miners, company reach deal | CNN

South African authorities at first charged 270 miners with murder before dropping the charges pending further investigation. Lonmin said workers also will get a 2,000-rand (about $243) signing bonus.

South African Platinum Miners Agree to End Strike - WSJ

Text. JOHANNESBURG—South Africa's main platinum mining union said Monday that its members agreed to a wage settlement that will end a five-month strike, the country's longest, that has left the ...

Steel Strike and Riots in Neoliberal South Africa ...

By Marty Goodman This article was written on October 17, before the recent strike settlement. An October 5 strike of 155,000 steelworkers by the rebel National United Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and working-class riots in July have shaken South African capitalism. Zwelinzima Vavi, the popular General Secretary of the nation's second …

South African platinum miners end strike, accepting pay raise

This post has been corrected. See the note below for details. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Platinum miners at Lonmin's Marikana site ended their illegal six-week strike after winning raises of up to 22% in a deal critics warned could ignite a wave of pay demands and wildcat strikes across South Africa's troubled mining industry.

Two of five missing miners rescued at Implats mine foll...

In 2019, there was a record low of 51 fatalities in South Africa's mining sector, so the 2021 total has already surpassed that — and this is the second straight year in which fatalities have ...

South African miners strike for higher wages, 1946 ...

Local African National Congress leaders were arrested and tried for treason and sedition. Workers at 32 of the 45 mines on the Rand had participated in the strike. Hundreds of workers were arrested, tried, imprisoned, or deported. A total of 1,248 miners on strike were wounded and nine were killed.

A history of mining in South Africa (ZA)

Such events are rooted in a strike led by the African Mine Workers' Union in August 1946. Miners of the Witwatersrand were demanding higher pay: an extra 10 shillings a day. The strike went on for a week despite what South African History Online describes as "the most savage police terror". Officially, the police and army attacked the ...

South African Marikana miners stage wildcat strike - World ...

South African Marikana miners stage wildcat strike. Thousands of Lonmin platinum mine workers in Marikana, South Africa, have taken strike action in protest over the execution-style killing of an ...

2014 South African platinum strike - Wikipedia

The GDP of South Africa contracted in the first quarter of 2014, pulled down by the steepest drop in mining production (25% of which 19% was directly attributable to the strike) in 50 years. It was the first contraction since 2009. Fitch Ratings downgraded its outlook on South Africa to "negative" from "stable".

Platinum Miners Strike in South Africa | News | BET

January 23, 2014. RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) — Tens of thousands of platinum miners in South Africa went on strike Thursday, demanding higher wages in a protest that is disrupting one of the ...

Miners beg union to end South Africa's longest strike

By Zandi Shabalala RUSTENBURG South Africa (Reuters) - Workers and shop-stewards from South Africa's AMCU mining union begged leader Joseph Mathunjwa to sign a wage deal with three major platinum firms on Thursday at a mass rally crowning five months of crippling protest. As the longest strike in the 130-year history of South Africa's mines showed …

South Africa's trade unions - Could the deal be contagious ...

On September 18th workers at its mine at Marikana in South Africa signed a deal that ended a six-week wildcat strike that has left 45 people dead. Miners will get a pay bump of between 11% and 22% ...

Miners strike wage deal in South Africa

MARIKANA, South Africa - MINERS at South Africa's Lonmin platinum mine ended their strike yesterday in return for a 22 per cent pay raise, after a nearly six-week stand-off that had claimed 45 lives.

Striking South African miners, company reach deal - CNN

Miners at a South African platinum operation where 34 co-workers were killed in a clash with police will end their strike after a wage agreement was …

South African miners agree wage deal to end strike - BBC News

Union leaders have signed a wage deal with South Africa's biggest platinum mining companies, ending the nation's longest-running strike. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU ...

Miners' Strike: South Africa 1922 | Encyclopedia.com

Coal miners strike deal in South Africa. Companies offer five per cent deal in a bid to thwart spread of wildcat mines into the coal sector. More than 80,000 miners, or 15 percent of the industry ...

Marikana massacre - Wikipedia

The Marikana massacre was the killing of 34 miners by the South African Police Service (SAPS). It took place on 16 August 2012, and was the most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since 1976. The massacre has been compared to the 1960 Sharpeville massacre. The incident took place on the 25th anniversary of a nationwide …

Strike looms as Sibanye's gold wage talks deadlock over ...

Miners, artisans and officials were offered an increase of 4.5% in year one, 4.9% in year two and 4.9% in year three. Labour was dissatisfied with Sibanye's offer as it falls short of the wage deals that have been secured with other gold miners, namely, Harmony Gold, Gold Fields and Village Main Reef.

Striking South Africa platinum miners agree deal with ...

Tue 18 Sep 2012 18.06 EDT. Striking platinum miners in South Africa have accepted an agreement with Lonmin and plan to return to work on Thursday, all but ending five weeks of acrimony, bloodshed ...

Strike at South Africa's Marikana mine ends as workers ...

Strike at South Africa's Marikana mine ends as workers accept wage deal ... after striking miners secured a 22 percent pay hike from London-listed Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana on September 18 ...

Striking South African Miners Reach Deal with Amplats ...

Workers have reached a deal with Anglo American Platinum to reinstate 12,000 miners sacked for an illegal strike, which could end the last big industrial action that has rocked South Africa's massive mining sector.

Union says wage deal to end South African platinum …

By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's AMCU union said on Friday a wage deal with the top three platinum producers was imminent, signalling a possible end to a crippling five-month strike that has disrupted global output of the metal. Workers from the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) begged leader …

The 1913 Mineworkers' Strike | South African History Online

Introduction: Background to the Strike. The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the various groups in the four former colonies. The union was a victory for the British – especially for the 'uitlanders' (foreigners) and mining magnates – who wanted to unite the country; but it was a defeat for Afrikaners such as ...

1946 African Mineworkers Strike | South African History Online

1946 African Mineworkers Strike. "Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 feet in the bowels of the earth, sace their lungs to the rock dust which develops miners' phthisis and pneumonia."

80,000 South African Platinum Miners Strike For A Living ...

Patrick Bond: Mine workers strike and moving away from the African National Conference could signal a reconfiguration of the left in South AfricaSee more vid...