[miningmx.com] – THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) would press ahead with a strike saying the industrial action was “not economic sabotage”, adding it was “… a living wage campaign”.
Irvin Jim, NUMSA general secretary told BDLive that: “When the economy is bad, bosses make money; when it is good, bosses make money.”
At some 220,000 members strong, the union’s strike would be three times as large as the strike called by the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) in the platinum sector which caused a 0.6% contraction of the economy in the first quarter, said BDLive.
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