BMWU to petition Mokaila over Moolmans retrenchments

Friday, July 25, 2014

FRANCISTOWN: Botswana Mining Workers’ Union (BMWU) is taking up the matter of its retrenched members at Moolmans Avens with the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Kitso Mokaila.

Moolmans Avens, which does excavations for Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC) here, retrenched 61 of its employees last week whilst negotiations with the BMWU were continuing.

Moolmans Avens argued that the pit where excavations were taking place was getting narrower as it went further and further down, resulting in only a few workers going underground while the rest were left idling at the surface.

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