Impala Platinum (Implats) said it was confident work would resume at its Rustenburg operations by night shift today after its majority union, the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) caused a stoppage related to inter-union rivalry. “As I speak AMCU is addressing its members,” said Johan Theron, a spokesman for the platinum group metal (PGM) company. “AMCU stopped the return to work today of contractors. It was an unprotected work stoppage in which they raised concerns about workers returning to the mine,” he said. The background to the dispute is that the National Union of Metalworkers of South ... (full story)