OPINIONISTA: The Sibanye-Stillwater strike has had devastating consequences – all because of Joseph Mathunjwa's ambitions By Luphert Chilwane
Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, Amcu,Mathunjwa is always taking the desperation of workers for a ride. He took workers at Sibanye-Stillwater into a five-month-long unpaid and unproductive strike just because he wanted to solidify his relevancy in the face of poor workers.
Now that the strike has been called off, the workers will be paid what is called a “hardship payment” of R4,000 and they will be forced into a cash loan of about R5,000 to be repaid over 12 months. The living-out allowance was increased by R50 to a maximum of R2,150 per month from 1 September 2018 and will reach R2,225 in 2019 and R2,325 in 2020. The guaranteed minimum severance payment was increased to R50,000 over the three-year period.
Compromises usually occur in win-lose situations — when there is a fixed pie to be divided up, and whatever one side gets, the other side loses. In compromise situations, neither side gets all of what they really want, but they each make concessions in order to reach an agreement that is acceptable to both.
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