ActionSA Resolves to March with 800 Glencore Dismissed Employees
Victor Mothemela
ActionSA Limpopo Provincial Chairperson
Following our engagement with the former workers of Glencore on Sunday where the 800 dismissed workers miners expressed discontent over their ordeal with Glencore management, ActionSA, resolved to embark on a solidarity march with the aggrieved workders on Monday, 15 April 2024 to Glencore Steelpoort Campus.
The workers who had been on this long journey with Glencore since 2013, are once more pleading with the mining giant, Glencore, to reconsider the devastating industrial action undertaken more than 10 years ago at Steelpoort mine in Sekhukhune of allegedly arbitrarily dismissing 800 mineworkers.
Despite the miners’ several attempts to engage management and HR on the matter, Glencore has been adamant to not heed to the miners’ calls to reinstate workers and pay their pension pay-outs. The march is to compel Glencore Management to engage with the workers and give this matter the attention it deserves.
Unemployment and job losses in this declining economy should never be taken lightly. It is our view as ActionSA that stable gainful employment provides the best avenue towards economic prosperity and companies such as Glencore have made it possible for many to access employment opportunities.
The livelihood of hundreds of hardworking men and women is at stake, and there is no more time for talk. Urgent action is needed.
We call on to Glencore to rethink the devastating impact of 800 dismissals on the local economy and the regrettable multiplier effect of unemployment for these rural communities.
ActionSA Resolves to March with 800 Glencore Dismissed Employees
Following our engagement with the former workers of Glencore on Sunday where the 800 dismissed workers miners expressed discontent over their ordeal with Glencore management, ActionSA, resolved to embark on a solidarity march with the aggrieved workders on Monday, 15 April 2024 to Glencore Steelpoort Campus.
The workers who had been on this long journey with Glencore since 2013, are once more pleading with the mining giant, Glencore, to reconsider the devastating industrial action undertaken more than 10 years ago at Steelpoort mine in Sekhukhune of allegedly arbitrarily dismissing 800 mineworkers.
Despite the miners’ several attempts to engage management and HR on the matter, Glencore has been adamant to not heed to the miners’ calls to reinstate workers and pay their pension pay-outs. The march is to compel Glencore Management to engage with the workers and give this matter the attention it deserves.
Unemployment and job losses in this declining economy should never be taken lightly. It is our view as ActionSA that stable gainful employment provides the best avenue towards economic prosperity and companies such as Glencore have made it possible for many to access employment opportunities.
The livelihood of hundreds of hardworking men and women is at stake, and there is no more time for talk. Urgent action is needed.
We call on to Glencore to rethink the devastating impact of 800 dismissals on the local economy and the regrettable multiplier effect of unemployment for these rural communities.