{"id":12571,"date":"2012-07-19T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/s-african-union-threatens-strike-at-arms-nickel-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:02:36","slug":"s-african-union-threatens-strike-at-arms-nickel-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-african-union-threatens-strike-at-arms-nickel-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African union threatens strike at ARM&#8217;s nickel mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 19<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s National<br \/>\nUnion of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday it was preparing to<br \/>\nstrike at Nkomati, a nickel mine jointly owned by African<br \/>\nRainbow Mineral&#8217;s and Russia&#8217;s Norilsk.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The largest mining union in South Africa has declared a<br \/>\ndispute with the mine owners over wages and NUM&#8217;s Regional<br \/>\nSecretary in North East, William Mabap, said it would not<br \/>\nhesitate to call a strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A three-week strike at African Rainbow Minerals&#8217; joint<br \/>\nventure with Anglo American Platinum at Modikwa<br \/>\nPlatinum mine in April cost the mine 21,000 ounces in lost<br \/>\nproduction.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This equated to 6 percent of the mine&#8217;s 350,000-ounce annual<br \/>\nplatinum group metal production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nkomati mine is situated in Machadodorp in Mpumalanga and<br \/>\nproduced 10,100 tonnes of nickel in 2011.<br \/>\n($1 = 8.1565 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas)<\/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, July 19 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday it was preparing to strike at Nkomati, a nickel mine jointly owned by African Rainbow Mineral&#8217;s and Russia&#8217;s Norilsk. The largest mining union in South Africa has declared a dispute with the mine owners over wages and NUM&#8217;s Regional Secretary [&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-12571","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\/12571","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=12571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}