Anglo American Platinum in South Africa

AThousandYoung

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24 Jan 14

AThousandYoung

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24 Jan 14

The workers are on strike down there. Are their demands reasonable? One would think working at a platinum mine would pay well.

no1marauder

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24 Jan 14

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
The workers are on strike down there. Are their demands reasonable? One would think working at a platinum mine would pay well.

You'd be wrong:

The union wants wages for the lowest-paid entry-level miners to be more than doubled to 12,500 rand ($1,134) a month.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-24/platinum-talks-today-will-seek-end-to-pay-strike-at-mines.html

rwingett

Ming the Merciless

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25 Jan 14

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
The workers are on strike down there. Are their demands reasonable? One would think working at a platinum mine would pay well.

The demands of all strikers in every strike are automatically reasonable.

KilgoreTrout15

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25 Jan 14

Some googling tells me that unskilled labor pays about $400 a month, teachers make about $1100, so I guess they should pay these illiterates more.