UASA TO RESIST JOB CUTS

THE UNITED Association of South Africa (Uasa) will resist job cuts at mining company Sibanye-Stillwater “tooth and nail”, the trade union said yesterday. “A substantial number of Uasa members employed at mining company Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations have received section 189 notices,” Uasa spokesperson Stanford Mazhindu said. “Uasa is part of the section 189 process at SibanyeStill water and will have to find a way to sugar coat the bitter pill of possible retrenchment for our workers. We will resist the job cuts tooth and nail.” South Africa already ranked among the worst in the world in terms of unemployment figures and retrenched workers would simply add to the woes of an already desperate situation. Despite the somewhat improved employment figures announced this week by Statistics SA, the economy clearly did not have the capacity to absorb work seekers or to safeguard existing jobs. | African News Agency (ANA)