S.Africa gold miners' unions reject higher pay offer

(Reuters) - Trade unions have rejected an increased wage offer from the three biggest gold firms in South Africa, the world's biggest producer of the precious metal, a labour spokesman said on Monday.

The unions rejected a 7.25 percent wage offer from the Chamber of Mines, but agreed to meet again on August 1, Reint Dykema, spokesman for Solidarity trade union, said.


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South African Gold Producers Boost Pay Offer to 7 Percent, Union Says

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa's biggest gold producers
boosted their wage-increase offer to 7 percent at talks today,
the Solidarity labor union said.

The offer by AngloGold Ashanti Ltd., Gold Fields Ltd. and
Harmony Gold Mining Co. will now be considered by Solidarity, the
National Union of Mineworkers and the United Association of South
Africa, Reint Dykema, a spokesman for Solidarity, said in an
interview from Johannesburg.


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