What have workers at Blyvoor Gold Mine in Carletonville done to deserve such bad treatment from their employer?
There is a great deal of confusion among Blyvoor Gold Mine employees, with hundreds of mineworkers being dismissed on the basis of their constitutional rights to belong to a trade union of their choice.
Employers may not impose, or threaten to impose, any of the following requirements on an employee or person seeking employment:The employee may not become a union or forum member; andAny allegations of victimisation must be referred to the relevant bargaining or statutory council if one exists in that sector, or to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.
In the workplace, the right to freedom of association is essentially an “enabling” right that entitles workers to form and join workers’ organisations of their own choice to promote common organisational interests. Instead of pushing forward with the struggle to transform and improve the socioeconomic conditions of communities where it mines, Blyvoor Gold Mine is obsessed with establishing “closed-shop agreements” that infringe on the workers’ right to freedom of association.
Workers are being victimised to a level of no return. What is most concerning is the deafening silence from the Department of Labour and Employment as the custodian of the Labour Relations Act.
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