Miners vs Employers

Gold Fields miners yesterday were given an ultimatum to return to work before 12 pm and failing to obey this instruction they will have to face dismissal and apparently +- 12000 miners have been retrenched. The employees say they not going anywhere until the mine bosses sign on the dotted line the salary increase of R 18500.00. Now I'm thinking to myself does it make sense to increase salaries from 4000 rands to 18500? Well miners do work under risky conditions but the salary hike of such percentage is just Absurd.The Marikana increase of salaries was just the beggining of great bad things to happen in the mining industry of this country. I believe its about time the Goverment Nationalise our mines, else we'll soon be faced not with just strikers but civil war in our hands, if our leaders dont show good leadership skills.