{"id":11059,"date":"2012-06-04T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T08:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/south-africa-municipal-workers-cut-wage-demands\/"},"modified":"2012-06-04T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T08:42:06","slug":"south-africa-municipal-workers-cut-wage-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africa-municipal-workers-cut-wage-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa municipal workers cut wage demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African municipal<br \/>\nworkers negotiating annual pay rises have reduced their demands<br \/>\nto 11.5 percent from 15 percent but have made no &#8220;meaningful<br \/>\nprogress&#8221; in resolving an impasse with management, a major<br \/>\npublic sector union said on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South African Municipal Workers&#8217; Union (SAMWU) said<br \/>\npublic sector bosses were sticking at their previous offer of<br \/>\n4.5 percent, a shade lower than inflation at 6.1 percent in<br \/>\nApril.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SAMWU claims more than 200,000 members, most of them water,<br \/>\nsanitation and refuse workers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In its budget in February, the Treasury allowed for a wage<br \/>\nincrease of only 5 percent for public servants, adding that a<br \/>\nhuge state salary bill was crowding out investment in<br \/>\ninfrastructure and other key productive sectors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wage negotiations tend to last several weeks in a mid-year<br \/>\nbargaining session known as &#8220;strike season&#8221;, with unions often<br \/>\ndowning tools to back their demands, disrupting mine production<br \/>\nand also hitting services in state hospitals and schools.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A further round of talks between SAMWU and local government<br \/>\nofficials are due on June 13\/14.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Hugh Lawson)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South African municipal workers negotiating annual pay rises have reduced their demands to 11.5 percent from 15 percent but have made no &#8220;meaningful progress&#8221; in resolving an impasse with management, a major public sector union said on Monday. The South African Municipal Workers&#8217; Union (SAMWU) said public sector bosses were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}