UNIONS representing miners are advocating for the mining sector-based minimum wage because the industry was different from the civil service and other sectors and has its own challenges, National Union of Miners and Allied Workers (NUMAW) President Saul Simujika has said.Mr Simujika said mine workers unions were demanding for mine sector-based minimum wage because they had learnt bitter lessons from salary negotiations where mining investors had been awarding their employees poor salary increases in the name of not making profits while externalising profitsMr Simujika said in interview that because of the low minimum wage which cut across various sectors of the economy, some exploitative investors were paying poor salaries which could not sustain the livelihoods of the miners given the high cost of livingMr Simujika said the current situation where miners were merely being used as tools of production by some mining investors should come to an end in 2023 because unions shall not accept […]
Miners demand sector-based minimum wage
