[miningmx.com] – THE Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) was becoming a more peaceful organisation, said Reuters citing political experts who said the union was maturing.
“Now that AMCU has secured the platinum belt, we are entering a phase where they are evolving into a real trade union,” Crispen Chinguno, a researcher at the sociology department of Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand and an expert on labour relations in the platinum sector, told the newswire.
“They have union dues coming in, they have recognition, and so they must now play by the rules of the game because they are in the game,” said Chinguno.
“AMCU is in unfriendly terrain and has to bed down its structures. It cannot afford a three-front fight against NUM, management and the ANC,” said political analyst Nic Borain.
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