{"id":12100,"date":"2012-07-04T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/factbox-rival-unions-take-on-s-africas-num\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:13:48","slug":"factbox-rival-unions-take-on-s-africas-num","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-rival-unions-take-on-s-africas-num\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Rival unions take on S.Africa&#8217;s NUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s dominant National Union of<br \/>\nMineworkers (NUM) is losing members to rival labour groups<br \/>\ntapping into a swelling vein of discontent with the key African<br \/>\nNational Congress ally that was forged in the struggle against<br \/>\napartheid.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NUM counts roughly 300,000 members but in recent months it<br \/>\nhas lost around 5 percent to other unions which have launched<br \/>\nrecruiting drives among its members with a number of companies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following are some of challenges it has faced and some of<br \/>\nthe mines and companies where rivals have said they are starting<br \/>\nor attempting to recruit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONMIN<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s third largest platinum producer has given<br \/>\nrecognition the radical Association of Mineworkers and<br \/>\nConstruction Union (AMCU) at its Karee mine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AMCU claims over 3,000 members there after an often violent<br \/>\nturf war with NUM that started last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>IMPALA PLATINUM<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Officials at Implats, the No. 2 producer of the precious<br \/>\nmetal, say it looks as though AMCU has poached about 10,000<br \/>\nformer NUM members or roughly half unionised workforce at its<br \/>\nRustenburg operation, the world&#8217;s largest platinum mine.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is losing members to rival labour groups tapping into a swelling vein of discontent with the key African National Congress ally that was forged in the struggle against apartheid. NUM counts roughly 300,000 members but in recent months it has lost around 5 [&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-12100","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\/12100","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=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}