[miningmx.com] – SOUTH Africa’s largest gold and coal mining unions, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) are due to table their wage demands for gold and coal sector negotiations later this year, said Reuters.
The NUM told Reuters it would make its demands by the end of March whilst rival, the AMCU would lodge its demands in April. The two-year wage agreements in the two sectors expire in June 2015, said Reuters.
Sibanye Gold CEO, Neal Froneman, told Reuters any wage settlement had to be sustainable. The gold industry was in “a sunset phase” and needed to be “nurtured and not raped”, he said.
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