The World - News from April 30, 1989

A black trade union is seeking to stop the sale of Mobil Corp. assets in South Africa until it negotiates a disinvestment procedure providing job security and other benefits, the union said. The Chemical Workers Industrial Union, which represents 1,200 of Mobil’s 1,500 South African black workers, said it applied for relief to the Industrial Court, a government labor tribunal. Mobil said it is selling its operations to General Mining Union Corp. Ltd. “Far from being moral or politically progressive, Mobil has seriously disadvantaged its work force by selling to one of the most notoriously anti-union South African corporations,” a union statement said. However, Mobil has said General Mining agreed to honor all existing labor agreements.