A labour court judge has tough words for union over its history of violent strikes
SA’s labour court has prevented a secondary strike across the country’s gold, platinum and vanadium industries, ruling that such an action would be unprotected.Amcu had called for the seven-day secondary or sympathy strikes across a range of companies to support its 14,000 striking members at Sibanye-Stillwater’s three gold mines, who downed tools on November 21 in demand of higher wages.
Amcu argued in court that because Sibanye and the other companies at which it wanted to declare the secondary strike are all part of the Minerals Council SA , the companies could bring pressure on Sibanye to resolve the gold strike. Once Amcu issued the secondary strike notices, those companies immediately approached the labour court to declare the strike action unprotected.
The third provision states that workers may embark on a secondary strike provided “the nature and extent is reasonable in relation to the possible direct or indirect effect that the secondary strike may have on the business of the primary employer”. “Since the primary strike is going into its fourth month, it is unlikely that a secondary strike of seven days will have any impact on the primary strike at this stage,” she said. “As Sibanye and AngloGold are competitive gold producers, a secondary strike resulting in AngloGold being unable to produce would rather give Sibanye a competitive advantage.”
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