adminahead of the expiry of current agreements next year.
The offer would lapse if workers do not show up for work on Monday, Amplats said.
“Nobody is going back to work on Monday (today. The strike continues,” labour leader Evans Ramokga said.
“We are not happy with the conditions on the offer like the final warnings and threats of disciplinary actions for dismissed workers.”
The company fired 12 000 workers who went on an illegal work stoppage in Rustenburg.
The cost of the wildcat action, in its second month, is mounting and Amplats said it had lost almost 168 000 ounces in platinum production, worth over US$250 million at current spot prices. The one-off allowance would cost the world top producer of the white metal 220 million rand.
But the company said it could not afford the wage increase demands being made. Workers want a salary increase of 4 500 per month, which would add about 2,6 billion rand to the company’s wage bill, it said.
South Africa’s gold and platinum sectors have been shaken by months of illegal and often violent strikes which have resulted in the deaths of around 50 people so far this year. — Reuters.
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