Wednesday, September 4, 2013

South Africa: Union and gold miners ease some pay demands as work stoppage bites

(Reuters) - South Africa's main mining union has offered to compromise on some of its demands for higher pay after initiating industrial action and work stoppage that hit production at most of the country's gold mines on Wednesday.

The stoppage called by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began at the evening shift on Tuesday, with many miners refusing to go underground, producers said.

Production at 16 of the 23 mines currently involved in talks was partially or severely

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