[miningmx.com] – SOUTH Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) would reject an improved wage offer increase tabled by the country’s coal companies as it was “insulting”, said Reuters citing union spokesman, Livhuwani Mammburu.
A union source told Reuters the offer for lower-paid miners had been raised to a range of between 6 to 7%, depending on the mine and category of worker, from a previous offer of 5.5 to 6.5%.
“This insulting offer has hardly changed, so we will not take it back to our members. But we will still meet for mediation next week,” Mammburu said. Coal miners were currently making around R6,000 a month for basic pay, so such an increase would be 50%.
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