[miningmx.com] – ABOUT 500 workers at Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats’) Twickenham mine in South Africa went on strike against plans to cut 165 jobs, said Bloomberg News citing an announcement by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
NUM members stopped working at the mine after being served notices of possible dismissals by Capital Development Services, which is developing the operation, the NUM said in an e-mailed statement Friday.
The majority of the affected “employees do not even have retirement and pension funds,’ the NUM said. “The company must consider voluntary severance packages as an alternative.’
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