Otmane El Rhazi : NUM threatens to strike over Kumba lay-offs

Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.

South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Monday its members would stop work at Kumba Iron Ore if the company went ahead with plans to cut up to 175 jobs, most of them at its Sishen mine. "The NUM will engage with Kumba Iron Ore management to halt the retrenchments and if the engagements do not work, we will definitely embark on a strike," the union said in a statement.