[miningmx.com] – SOUTH Africa’s platinum companies had avoided centralised bargaining and competed among themselves for worker salaries which had led to the current instability in the labour market, said BDLive citing South African Communist Party general-secretary, Blade Nzimande.
“All of this has resulted in chronic labour market instability. To add insult to injury, the senior management have been paying themselves huge and insensitive salaries and perks,” said Nzimande who was speaking following the SACP.s central committee meeting on June 1.
He also said that focusing just on settling the pay strike, now in its 19th week, would be a mistake. “This will leave the initiative for and direction of restructuring in the hands of the mining monopolies. The mining houses are looking …to close many shafts and operations… at the cost of of labour in the more profitable operations,” he said.
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