Blyvoor miners return to surface, in talks with management
Hundreds of miners who staged a ‘sit-in’ at the Blyvoor Gold Mine in western Gauteng on Wednesday returned to the surface late Thursday.
Source: dailymaverick.co.za
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Hundreds of miners who staged a ‘sit-in’ at the Blyvoor Gold Mine in western Gauteng on Wednesday returned to the surface late Thursday.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said that about 230 mine workers at Blyvoor who went underground for the morning shift on Wednesday refused to come to the surface. The union said their main grievance is that they want to join the NUM at a mine with a closed-shop agreement with an in-hou...