| The supervisors have a statutory responsibility for the health and safety of mineworkers, so if the strikes go ahead, pits are expected to close. |
| Pressure last night mounted on the Government to end the shame of some former mineworkers crippled by coal dust being denied proper compensation. |
| More than 160 mineworkers at the Pasminco Rosebery mine in Tasmania went on strike for 48 hours last Sunday. |
| At Harmony Gold, 9,000 mineworkers at the mine backed the one-day strike, closing down operations. |
| My father died from mineworkers ' pneumoconiosis and my father-in-law died of emphysema. |
| If the closures go ahead, hundreds more coal mineworkers and their families in hard hit regions will be thrown on the industrial scrapheap. |
