[miningmx.com] – ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) is facing a worker backlash even if it agrees to lessen the extent of its planned restructuring which was meant to see some 14,000 jobs affected at its Rustenburg mines.
Reuters, citing a worker affiliated with the Associated Mineworkers & Construction Union (Amcu), reported that all workers would stand together against the restructuring, aimed at lower costs by cutting 400,000 ounces a year of platinum productive capacity.
“Obviously, we will not allow this to happen. If they close one operation, we have vowed among ourselves that all of these operations must stop,” Evans Ramokga, an Amplats miner and activist told Reuters.
Amcu secretary-general, Joseph Mathunjwa, sought to distance himself from unprotected strikes. “We are not supporting anything like that. Amcu does not vouch for unprotected (illegal) industrial action,” he told Reuters.
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