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AMCU: members reject platinum wage offer
President of South Africa's Association of Mine workers and Construction Union (AMCU) Joseph Mathunjwa addresses striking mine workers before the workers submitted a memorandum at Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd offices in Johannesburg March 27, 2014. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
The strike has been running for nearly four months at Anglo American Platinum, Lonmin and Impala Platinum and has hit 40 percent of global production of the precious metal.
The three companies took their latest wage offer directly to the roughly 70,000 striking miners after wage talks with the union collapsed. The firms said many of the strikers had expressed a desire to return to work.