{"id":14138,"date":"2012-08-31T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-lonmin-labour-talks-suspended-until-monday-union\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:31:19","slug":"update-1-lonmin-labour-talks-suspended-until-monday-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-lonmin-labour-talks-suspended-until-monday-union\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Lonmin labour talks suspended until Monday -union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Discussions among platinum<br \/>\nminer Lonmin Plc , unions and government to end<br \/>\na three-week strike have been suspended until Monday for<br \/>\nfunerals of those killed in a labour fight, a union official<br \/>\nsaid on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gideon du Plessis, deputy secretary general of trade union<br \/>\nSolidarity, also said talks that stated this week seeking a plan<br \/>\nto have 3,000 striking workers return to their post at Lonmin&#8217;s<br \/>\nSouth Africa operations were suspended on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin said in a statement that 5.7 percent of its 28,000<br \/>\n-strong South African workforce had reported for work on Friday.<br \/>\nThat was down from just under 7 percent on Thursday, and likely<br \/>\nimpacted by workers attending funerals of their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Production at the world&#8217;s third-largest platinum producer<br \/>\nhas come to a near standstill from the labour unrest, which has<br \/>\nleft 44 dead this month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shares of Lonmin were down 0.24 percent in Johannesburg at<br \/>\n78.71 rand at 1006 GMT.<\/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 Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Discussions among platinum miner Lonmin Plc , unions and government to end a three-week strike have been suspended until Monday for funerals of those killed in a labour fight, a union official said on Friday. Gideon du Plessis, deputy secretary general of trade union Solidarity, also said talks that stated [&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-14138","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\/14138","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=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}