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Mineworkers threaten to join South Africa strike
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 05 - 06 - 2007

Mineworkers in South Africa are gearing up to
possibly join public service workers in a five-day-old nationwide
strike that has wrought havoc in public schools and hospitals, the
main mining union said Tuesday, according to dpa.
The National Union of Mineworkers, the biggest trade union in
South Africa with over quarter of a million members, said it was
mobilising for "huge strike action ... in the absence of a resolution
to the current impasse" between the government and public service
unions.
A mining strike could hamper output of gold and platinum in South
Africa, the world's largest producer of the precious metals.
Meanwhile Tuesday a phone-in programme on public radio was
offering advice on home schooling as pupils were turned away from
schools for the third time in a week in parts of the country.
And service delivery in many public hospitals continued to be
constrained by a shortage of nursing staff although nurses at some
hospitals appeared to have heeded a government warning to return to
work or be fired.
Unions representing over a million public sector workers,
including teachers, nurses and police, have vowed to push on with the
open-ended strike after rejecting the state's offer Monday of a
revised pay increase.
The government has offered a 6.5-per-cent pay rise and improved
housing and medical benefits. The unions are pressing for a
12-per-cent increase, although some spoke Tuesday in favour of a
compromise.
Some immigration officers at OR Tambo International Airport in
Johannesburg failed to show up for work Tuesday causing some delays
in international traffic that had cleared up by the afternoon, radio
reports said.
Nearly half a million workers downed tools on Friday, the first
day of the strike. No new national estimates on participation have
been issued by either the unions or state since.
The government threatened essential services workers, who are
banned from striking, with sacking unless they returned to work
Monday but some nurses and teachers say they are too afraid.
Reports of intimidation by striking workers against colleagues who
defy the strike call have been rife.
The principal of a school near Johannesburg was badly beaten
Monday, allegedly by other teachers, for choosing to work.


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