The labour court’s decision on Friday to prevent the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union from extending its nearly four-month strike at Sibanye-Stillwater to other companies in the mining industry should be welcomed.
The union came to the fore during the platinum strikes of 2012, particularly at Marikana, where the killing of 34 strikers by police — in the presence of the media — got the most attention. Sadly, the non-police related killings during the Lonmin strike were no outlier, and Amcu has done little to get its members to protest peacefully since.
Second, an unprotected strike opens the door for companies to fire workers, and then rehire selectively — effectively enabling them to get rid of the union’s most troublesome shop stewards. For Amcu this would make future mobilisation and recruitment more difficult. Sibanye CEO Neal Froneman, however, has refused to budge — and it is unlikely any amount of pressure from the government or fellow members at the Minerals Council, as Amcu is hoping for with a sympathy strike, will change his mind.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
AMCU dodged the bullet at Marikana where they managed to avoid all accountability and deflect all responsibility for the massacre to the police but their violent approach to labour disputes is catching up with them very fast...
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