Only an "honourable settlement" can resolve the three-month- long strike in the platinum sector, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) said on Monday.
"We call on the platinum cabal to be patriotic. Only an honourable settlement can resolve the strike," union leader Joseph Mathunjwa told reporters in Johannesburg.
"Our members have rejected the offer. The Amcu strike is protected. No one should put pressure on us... We appeal to progressive forces to put pressure on the employer to accept this demand."
Amcu members at Lonmin, Impala and Anglo American Platinum operations in Rustenburg, North West and Northam in Limpopo downed tools on January 23 demanding a basic salary of R12 500 over a period of four years.
Mathunjwa said the R12 500 demand was based on the escalating cost of living and the "slave-structured" wage grades in the mining sector
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He said the R4 500 wage in the mines was earned by Indian and white mine employees in 1987. "There is no good story for mineworkers since the dawn of democracy."
Amcu rejects strike settlement offer
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