Our members who embarked on a legal day long strike at Anglo Platinum Mine (Aquarius) which was recently bought into by Sibanye at the Kroondal operations in Rustenburg, has been suspended following the mine’s court application claiming our strike was illegal.
We lawfully obtained the strike certificate on the 25th of January 2016.

We timeously strived to engage the employer in efforts to resolve the matters that we had brought forward but those negotiations resulted in a deadlock. Subsequently, we served management with a strike notice on Tuesday 24 May at 3pm. The last shift was on Thursday 26 May at 10pm, making it exactly 48 hours before the strike commenced as per the labour laws.

On Friday 27th of May we resumed with the strike until yesterday afternoon Monday 30th May when the judge ruled in management’s favour. The Interdict ruled that we discontinue with the strike and our members to return to work accordingly. However, this does not mean that we will park our discussions regarding the demands. We will be going back to the labour court on the 26 August 2016 to resolve the matter and are meeting with Aquarius Mine management on Thursday 2nd June to continue discussing these pressing issues.

 

Issued by AMCU