JOHANNESBURG — A group of miners from an unregistered, competitor union are holding hundreds of their associates underground for a 2nd day at a gold mine in South Africa over a union disagreement, authorities and mine authorities stated Tuesday. Some 15 miners haveactually been hurt in scuffles, the head of the mine stated.
Details were questionable and there were clashing declarations over what tookplace, with the unregistered union asserting it represents the bulk of staffmembers at the mine and it desires to be officially acknowledged. It stated the employees underground were staging a demonstration and there was no captive circumstance.
According to Jon Hericourt, CEO of New Kleinfontein Gold Mine business, which handles the myown, the event appeared early Monday when miners from the AMCU union avoided hundreds of others from leaving after their night shift ended at the Modder East mine in Springs, east of Johannesburg.
Hericourt stated there were 562 mineworkers underground, and the business had approximated that inbetween 110 and 120 of them were AMCU advocates. There were all sorts of hammers, chooses, shovels and other mining devices that might be utilized as weapons, he stated.
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