* Toyota’s Durban plant hit by four-day walkout
* Three more Amplats mines closed; police fire teargas
* Kumba Iron Ore stops output at giant Sishen pit
* Talks to end truck drivers’ strike collapse
By Wendell Roelf
CAPE TOWN, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp said
it had been forced to shut its South African car factory for
four days because of an illegal pay strike, the first sign of
wildcat mine stoppages spreading into other parts of Africa’s
biggest economy.
Trade union leaders at the Japanese car giant’s Durban plant
said workers would return on Friday after winning a 5.4 percent
pay rise inspired in part by a hefty increase won last month by
strikers at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine.
“The circumstances are not the same as what is happening in
the mines,” said Mbuso Ngubane of the National Union of
Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).
“But it does send a message. It does have an impact to some
extent on other workers getting agitated.”
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