South African miners strike over safety
THIS YEAR over 200 miners were killed in South Africa's gold, platinum and diamond mines. Last year the figure was 199. On 4 December, over 200,000 miners went on the first one-day strike in protest at shocking safety levels.
The miners' union, the National Union of Mineworkers, which has 270,000 members, planned to march on the employers' federation's headquarters to demand that the bosses "invest in safety in the same way they invest in production". Some of the miners' placards read "Blood-dripped profit is the bosses' luxury".
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In The Socialist 6 December 2007:
System change not climate change
Feature: The free market brings fire, flood and famine
Workplace news and analysis
Socialists and the trade union leaderships
What we think
Education
Compulsory school to 18 - a rosy future for young people?
International socialist news and analysis
Chavez referendum result a big setback
Annapolis - a framework for further conflict
Kosova: After the elections - before the explosion
Northern Ireland classroom assistants
Argos strike in southern Ireland
South African miners strike over safety
Socialist Party review
The socialist review: 'Taking Liberties'
Post Office and CWU
Keep the 'people's Post Office' public
Workplace news
Unison's right wing still witch-hunting
Manchester's striking mental health workers: Defending trade union rights
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