{"id":11172,"date":"2012-06-06T22:57:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/s-africas-amcu-says-recruiting-at-amplats\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:57:17","slug":"s-africas-amcu-says-recruiting-at-amplats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-amcu-says-recruiting-at-amplats\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s AMCU says recruiting at Amplats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AMCU says recruiting at Amplats<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AMCU claims to have over 15,000 members at Implats<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Turf war with NUM has taken 130,000 oz out of global<br \/>\noutput<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, June 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s radical<br \/>\nAssociation of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said it<br \/>\nwas recruiting at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats),<br \/>\nthe top producer of the precious metal, a move which could raise<br \/>\nconcerns among investors about a possible rise in unrest among<br \/>\nthe workforce.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are recruiting at Anglo Platinum &#8230; we have been<br \/>\ninvited by the workers,&#8221; AMCU President Joseph Mathunjwa told a<br \/>\nnews briefing. The union has also started recruiting efforts at<br \/>\nGold Fields, the world&#8217;s fourth-largest gold miner.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mathunjwa denied allegations that the union was using<br \/>\nviolence and intimidation in its efforts to peel members away<br \/>\nfrom the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AMCU has already been challenging the NUM at the Rustenburg<br \/>\noperations of Impala Platinum, the world No. 2 platinum<br \/>\nproducer, in a struggle that has taken close to 130,000 ounces<br \/>\nout of global production this year because of strikes and<br \/>\nstoppages.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AMCU represents the biggest challenge ever to the NUM&#8217;s<br \/>\ndominance among South Africa&#8217;s mining labour force.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The platinum sector in particular is seen as ripe for<br \/>\nrecruitment because it does not bargain collectively but on a<br \/>\ncompany-by-company basis.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* AMCU says recruiting at Amplats * AMCU claims to have over 15,000 members at Implats * Turf war with NUM has taken 130,000 oz out of global output JOHANNESBURG, June 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s radical Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said it was recruiting at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the top [&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-11172","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\/11172","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=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}