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BusinessLive reports that the prospects of a strike affecting coal mines supplying power utility Eskom are good as three unions and the Chamber of Mines fell out this week over the structure of forthcoming wage talks.
Wage talks were due to start in June, but the Chamber, representing seven coal producing members, and three unions fell out over a mandate from the companies to negotiate directly with unions rather than use the centralised bargaining process this year. Eskom is understood to be in informal contact with the Chamber to keep tabs on the likelihood of a strike and prepare its coal stockpiles accordingly. The unions involved are the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Solidarity and Uasa. They accuse the Chamber of negotiating in "bad faith" around how wage talks would be conducted in 2017. Centralised wage talks have been a feature of the coal industry for many years.
- Read this report by Allan Seccombe in full at BusinessLive
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