NUM5.jpg NUM Press Alert, 28 July 2017 NUM Condemns Naked Searching of Women NUM strongly condemns the searching of women while naked at Sibanye Gold Cooke Operations The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) strongly condemns the searching and stripping of women workers while they are naked by the male security officers at Sibanye Gold Cooke operations in Westonaria. 51 workers were suspended for refusing to be stripped naked and searched. This after Gauteng commercial radio station Kaya FM 95.9 exposure highlighting the abuse of women at the mine's Cooke 3 Shaft. This is the worst violation of their human right and degrading to their dignity. The NUM is the only union that fought for women to work in the mining industry and it did not fight for them to be abused, harassed, assaulted and violated by anyone. It is unacceptable and deplorable what these male security officers are doing at Sibanye Gold Cooke Operations. This is made worse by the fact that this incident is happening before a month that is dedicated to women. During the August month, we pay homage to the role of women in our society and also highlight the struggles they still face in their battle for total emancipation The NUM members who refuse to be searched are assaulted and handcuffed using cable tiers as if they are criminals. The NUM recently entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with management for the food ban underground to help fight illegal mining. The union is currently honouring such an MOU. Recently the union has observed the abuse of our agreement by management with regard to security. The Sibanye Gold management at Cooke operations is refusing to meet with the leadership of the NUM branch. This shows how arrogant Sibanye Gold is towards the NUM. The NUM leadership had asked the management on numerous occasions for the meeting to take place but the management does not even bother to respond. Contact: Wilson Metsing, NUM Branch Secretary at Cooke operations: 082 935 6237 Livhuwani Mammburu, NUM National Spokesperson: 083 809 3257 Web: www.num.org.za Twitter: @Num_Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NUM/100860023402167 --- 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/597b25bf.0591df0a.7b67e.44a1%40mx.google.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
