Wed Jun 19 03:00:43 SAST 2013
Wed Jun 19 03:00:43 SAST 2013

Gold One fires striking miners

Oct 9, 2012 | Reuters | 14 comments

Gold One has dismissed the majority of workers at its Ezulwini operation, which was hit by an illegal strike last week

The company said it had dismissed around 1,435 of Ezulwini’s total 1,900 workers.

The workers can appeal the decision, it added.

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Wed Jun 19 03:00:43 SAST 2013 ::
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Oct 9, 2012

DA-DBN-GUY

Well done Gold One!
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Oct 9, 2012

sabza007

Good, fire them. Education plays a very important role in how one takes decision. The so called leaders of these striking miners or truckers are not wise and educated but stubborn. Hard lessons must be learned sometimes in life. I wish these companies especially Gold One and Anglomplats not to reverse from their decisions.
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Oct 9, 2012

candilious

The best news ever so any intimidation arrest the fools
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Oct 9, 2012

Honeybadger

sabza007
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They will after the situation has calmed down. I have a feeling this decision was made at marshalltown than say Amplats.
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Oct 9, 2012

MommaC

good for them. It would have been better if they had banded together earlier but I'm glad that the savage thuggery isn't being rewarded anymore. Just a pity that they started with Lonmin who simply didn't have the financial ability to stand up to them
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Oct 9, 2012

Lehido

Good, its time that this goatf&kers know that they are not above the law
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Oct 9, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

Shame, and now they lose all their benefits and have to start from scratch when they reapply.

Good on you gold one.
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Oct 9, 2012

Mosquer

Mo ba leng ba bangwe ba itshola
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Oct 9, 2012

fokofpolisiekar

i for one thinks and believes no one who is an affiliate of a union should leave their work and go strike, i think since they pay monthly premiums to these unions, they should tell unions to go negotiate, unions should talk to the management. I mean if you have a car insurance and you get involved in an accident, you claim to the insurer cos you paying them monthly for that, if they cant help you with what you paying them for you can sue them, the same should be the case with unions, people pay so that the union can talk on their behalf, if unions struggle talking to management they should not involve workers, they get paid monthly so that when there is need to talk to management they go and make it a point that they come with what their members want... i hope am making sense.
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Oct 9, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

fokofpolisiekar - Thats how it should work, but not here in South Africa.
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