{"id":11424,"date":"2012-06-13T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/zambia-illovo-sugar-unit-workers-strike-over-pay\/"},"modified":"2012-06-13T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:13:45","slug":"zambia-illovo-sugar-unit-workers-strike-over-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zambia-illovo-sugar-unit-workers-strike-over-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Illovo Sugar unit workers strike over pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Workers want 35 pct pay rise<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zambia Sugar says strike illegal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LUSAKA, June 13<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; About 3,000 workers at Zambia<br \/>\nSugar, a unit of South Africa&#8217;s Illovo Sugar,<br \/>\nhave gone on strike demanding a 35 percent pay rise, the company<br \/>\nsaid on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zambia Sugar said in a statement that operations at its<br \/>\nNakambala Sugar Estate, about 130 km (80 miles) south of Lusaka,<br \/>\nhad been disrupted following the illegal strike, which started<br \/>\non Tue day.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The union has addressed workers and asked them to return to<br \/>\nwork immediately and advised that the strike action is illegal,&#8221;<br \/>\nZambia Sugar said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company said any employee who did not report to work<br \/>\nwould be deemed to have breached their employment contract and<br \/>\ndismissed. Union officials could not immediately be reached for<br \/>\ncomment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zambia Sugar expects its sugar output to increase by more<br \/>\nthan 7 percent to over 400,000 tonnes in the current 2012\/2013<br \/>\nseason from last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wage negotiations between Zambia Sugar and the union began<br \/>\nin January but collapsed in May after the company said it could<br \/>\nnot meet their demands.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zambia Sugar subsequently took the matter to court but the<br \/>\nworkers went on strike before the court could make a ruling, the<br \/>\ncompany said.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Chris Mfula; Editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/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>* Workers want 35 pct pay rise * Zambia Sugar says strike illegal LUSAKA, June 13 (Reuters) &#8211; About 3,000 workers at Zambia Sugar, a unit of South Africa&#8217;s Illovo Sugar, have gone on strike demanding a 35 percent pay rise, the company said on Wednesday. Zambia Sugar said in a statement that operations at [&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-11424","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\/11424","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=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}