[miningmx.com] – SOUTH Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will push for an 84% rise in basic pay for entry-level gold mining workers, a near 10 percentage-point increase on previous demands, said Reuters.
They show that the NUM, which represents 57% of the workforce in the goldmining industry, want employers to pay entry-level workers a basic 10,500 rand ($888) a month.
Entry-level gold diggers currently earn around R5,700 per month, not including various allowances structured into their pay packages.
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