{"id":14063,"date":"2012-08-30T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-fewer-than-7-pct-of-lonmin-workers-reports-for-duty\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:27:44","slug":"update-1-fewer-than-7-pct-of-lonmin-workers-reports-for-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-fewer-than-7-pct-of-lonmin-workers-reports-for-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Fewer than 7 pct of Lonmin workers reports for duty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Talks resume to get workers back next week<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Mines minister says unrest could hit investment<\/p>\n

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By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Fewer than 7 percent of
\nLonmin’s 28,000-strong South African workforce reported
\nfor duty on Thursday, as the platinum producer held talks with
\nwarring unions aimed at cooling tensions and bringing people
\nback to work.<\/p>\n

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The world’s third-largest platinum producer has had its
\nmining operations shut for almost three weeks because of a
\nviolent turf war between the established National Union of
\nMineworkers (NUM) and militant Association of Mineworkers and
\nConstruction Union (AMCU) that has killed 44 people this month.<\/p>\n

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That total includes 34 striking workers killed at once in a
\nhail of police bullets, stiffening the resolve of surviving
\ncomrades to hold out until their demands are met.<\/p>\n

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“We have a 6.6 percent average attendance across all shafts
\nthis morning,” Lonmin said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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The talks to end the impasse in the platinum mining city of
\nRustenburg northwest of Johannesburg resumed on Thursday after
\ndragging into the night on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Gideon du Plessis, deputy secretary general of trade union
\nSolidarity, said discussions are to secure “a return to
\nwork agreement – with the aim of getting workers back to work on
\nMonday after most funerals have been concluded.”
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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