Rustenburg - The second round of wage negotiations in the gold sector are set to resume in Boksburg on the East Rand of Johannesburg on Monday.
In the first round, unions tabled their demand while gold producers tabled the principles of an economic and social sustainability compact.
The principles involve profitability and sustainability of the industry.
Companies were now expected to table an offer in respect of wages and benefits within the principles of the proposed compact.
Dr Elize Strydom, for the producers, urged all parties to proceed with wage negotiations with an open mind and in good faith and recognising the interdependence.
Gold companies, AngloGold Ashanti, Evander Gold Mines, Harmony, Sibanye Gold and Village Main Reef met the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Solidarity and Uasa over three days last week.
The NUM special national executive committee (NEC) urged negotiating teams to engage robustly and soberly and fight without shame to extract the best outcomes for workers in line with the living wage vision of the Congress of SA Trade Union (Cosatu).
“The NEC further committed itself towards supporting the negotiating team in the construction sector to ensure that NUM comes victorious in its dispute with the construction sector,” general secretary David Sipunzi said in a statement.
The NEC also urged members of negotiating teams to work through team work and resolved that team members should support the new chief negotiators in both gold and coal sectors.
Sipunzi would lead gold negotiations while Peter Bailey leads coal negotiations.
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