{"id":14153,"date":"2012-09-01T03:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-s-africa-strikes-widen-stoke-contagion-fears\/"},"modified":"2012-09-01T03:32:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T01:32:01","slug":"update-2-s-africa-strikes-widen-stoke-contagion-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africa-strikes-widen-stoke-contagion-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa strikes widen, stoke contagion fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Says illegal strike at east section of KDC mine<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Two day, night shifts lost so far<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AMCU says not involved in strike<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shares down 4 pct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Dolan and Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; South African bullion miner<br \/>\nGold Fields said about a quarter of its 46,000 workers<br \/>\nhad been on a wildcat strike since Wednesday evening in the<br \/>\nlatest labour unrest to hit the mining industry of Africa&#8217;s top<br \/>\neconomy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The strike at the world&#8217;s No.4 gold producer follows a<br \/>\ndeadly stand-off at platinum miner Lonmin Plc which is<br \/>\nstill not resolved after three weeks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields said in a statement on Friday that about 12,000<br \/>\nworkers had been on an &#8220;unlawful and unprotected&#8221; strike at the<br \/>\neast section of its KDC mine in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on informal feedback from employees, the strike<br \/>\nappears to be related mainly to disagreements within organised<br \/>\nlabour and related structures on the mine, although we cannot<br \/>\nconfirm this,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Says illegal strike at east section of KDC mine * Two day, night shifts lost so far * AMCU says not involved in strike * Shares down 4 pct By David Dolan and Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; South African bullion miner Gold Fields said about a quarter of its 46,000 workers [&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-14153","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\/14153","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=14153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}