Rössing Uranium has concluded negotiations for salary increments for the year 2022 and 2023 within a month of negotiating with the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) Rössing Branch Executive Committee (BEC).
The two-year salary agreement signed on Thursday, covers employees in the Bargaining Unit Grade 1 to 11 and L Band.
The agreement provides employees with a 4% increase in 2022 and 4% in 2023.
The parties also agreed to a once-off lump sum, which will be payable in December 2021 to Grade 1 to 11 employees.
Speaking at the signing of the agreement, Rössing Uranium’s Manager Employee Relations, Kondja Kaulinge, said, “the negotiations were undertaken in a mutually cooperative spirit with both parties sharing a common understanding of the challenges facing the business.”
MUN Rössing Branch Acting Chairman, Stanslaus limbondi said, “this was not easy for us, especially going back to our members and for us to agree, but I am glad that we eventually reached a conclusion which was done through a voting process.”
Rössing Uranium is a uranium miner majority owned by China National Uranium Corporation (CNUC).
CNUC inturn, is a subsidiary of state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), which is significantly involved in the nuclear fuel cycle supply chain in that country.
