Salary increases for copper miners

WORKERS at the copper mining and smelting operations of Weatherly International have received an eight per cent basic salary increase, the company announced yesterday.

The increase will be backdated to May 1. The Chief Executive Officer of Weatherly, Rod Webster, commended the successful conclusion of the wage negotiations with the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN).”We will be examining ways during the year to further improve employee working conditions and productivity, which include more flexible working arrangements, overhauling the grading system and increasing productivity payments,” he said in a statement.Weatherly International is an AIM-listed company with copper mining and smelting operations in Namibia.The company’s operations are located at the Otjihase, Kombat and Tsumeb mines.The Tsumeb smelter is a major custom smelter with brownfields expansion potential.It produces blister copper (98,6 per cent copper) and has the ability to treat complex copper concentrates.Its current resource base is 690 000 tonnes of contained copper.NampaThe Chief Executive Officer of Weatherly, Rod Webster, commended the successful conclusion of the wage negotiations with the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN).”We will be examining ways during the year to further improve employee working conditions and productivity, which include more flexible working arrangements, overhauling the grading system and increasing productivity payments,” he said in a statement.Weatherly International is an AIM-listed company with copper mining and smelting operations in Namibia.The company’s operations are located at the Otjihase, Kombat and Tsumeb mines.The Tsumeb smelter is a major custom smelter with brownfields expansion potential.It produces blister copper (98,6 per cent copper) and has the ability to treat complex copper concentrates.Its current resource base is 690 000 tonnes of contained copper.Nampa