NUM5.jpg NUM Press Statement, 29 June 2017 The NUM-YS calls on AngloGold Ashanti Chairperson to stop retrenchments at his company The National Union of Mineworkers Youth Structure (NUM-YS) calls on AngloGold Ashanti Chairman Sipho Pityana to stop the retrenchments of 8 500 workers by the company in its South African operations. This man who is also the Chairperson of Save South Africa Campaign has been spending more time and energy trying to remove President Jacob Zuma than saving jobs at AngloGold Ashanti. "The retrenchments are happening under his leadership at the company. This company does not care about job creation in the mining industry. He has become a joke and a sellout. He has dismally failed to stop these retrenchments at the company," said Bonginkosi Mrasi, NUM-YS National Secretary. The decision to retrench such a high number of workers is premature and unnecessary at this juncture because of the current economic situation of the country and furthermore, the company must start to engage with future forums to get solutions. The NUM-YS is of the view that AngloGold Ashanti must align Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act with Section 52 of MPRDA Act which states that the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) must get involved if the company anticipate retrenching 10 percent or more employees. "We know that this process will mainly target young people in particular as they will be the first employees to be kicked out through Last In, First Out (LIFO) criteria and this will increase the unemployment rate hovering at 27.7% in a country where the majority are youths," Mrasi said. "We support the view of our main structure to fight nail and tooth this behaviour from AngloGold Ashanti and as the NUM-YS we will take our fight to them as we will roll out a mass action within no time," he concluded. For more information, please contact: Bonginkosi Mrasi: NUM-YS National Secretary: 064 758 0661/078 188 4300 Livhuwani Mammburu : NUM National Spokesperson: 083 809 3257 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/5954f4f5.d0141c0a.70fbc.523f%40mx.google.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
