Amcu moves to appeal Sibanye-Stillwater strike ruling
The union wants to reverse judgment that renders secondary strikes as unprotected
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has urgently sought to appeal against a Labour Court ruling that its secondary strikes at a host of SA’s mines would be unprotected. The union, which has 14,000 members out in a strike well into its fifth month, called for the secondary strike at the country’s major gold and platinum mines as well as those of vanadium and chrome producers to force Sibanye-Stillwater to bend to its demands at its gold mines. In the strike, which has been marked by numerous court appearances, the other mining companies won a reprieve from the secondary strike when Labour Court judge Connie Prinsloo ruled on March 15 that such an action would be unprotected because its impact on other mining companies would be out of proportion with the existing gold strike and that it would not have a direct impact on Sibanye’s gold mines. Amcu disagreed and in its application for leave to appeal argued that Prinsloo had “erred” in her findings and that in i...
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