[miningmx.com] – MINING at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mali mines Yatela and Sadiola was continuing despite a strike by a portion of contractors hired at the mines, said Bloomberg News.
About 2,000 workers were on strike in an effort to have AngloGold pay medical costs and two years’ salary to miners made redundant owing to illnesses contracted whilst working, said Bloomberg News.
“At this stage, production at both mines is proceeding as normal,’ with “a minority of employees’ taking part in the walkout that started on Febryar 10, AngloGold Ashanti told Bloomberg News.
“AngloGold is proposing nothing more than what is in the law, plus, for voluntary redundancy, seven days of salary for each year of work,’ Alfousseyni Toure, general secretary of the mines unit of the Synacome labor federation told the newswire.
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