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Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners
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RE: Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners
October 8, 2012 at 7:39 pm
(October 8, 2012 at 4:25 am)Tiberius Wrote: No, and I'm not 100% read up on this case, but it seems to me that a mining company would be wealthy enough to meet whatever demands they had without losing any revenue. I doubt the union asked the company for a ridiculous wage increase. If they did though, getting fired is the union's fault.
Exactly.

I doubt the workers are asking for more than safe working conditions and a decent living wage. If the company won't agree to that then what choice, other than violence, do they have other than strike?
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RE: Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners - by popeyespappy - October 8, 2012 at 7:39 pm

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