{"id":14353,"date":"2012-09-07T03:52:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T01:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-4-militant-s-africa-union-snubs-lonmin-peace-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T03:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T01:52:41","slug":"update-4-militant-s-africa-union-snubs-lonmin-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-militant-s-africa-union-snubs-lonmin-peace-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Militant S.Africa union snubs Lonmin &quot;peace deal&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* NUM signed agreement but AMCU holds out<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* NUM hopes for return to work Friday or Monday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Reports of returning workers being intimidated by strikers<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin shares jump 5 pct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Olivia Kumwenda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s militant<br \/>\nAMCU union refused to sign a &#8220;peace deal&#8221; with platinum company<br \/>\nLonmin  on Thursday, undermining<br \/>\ngovernment-backed efforts to open pay talks and end a four-week<br \/>\nstrike scarred by deadly violence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Lonmin, the world&#8217;s number three platinum producer,<br \/>\nsigned the accord with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)<br \/>\nand other labour groups in the early hours, representatives of<br \/>\nthe Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)<br \/>\ndeclined to put their names to the agreement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AMCU-affiliated miners at the Marikana platinum mine where<br \/>\npolice shot dead 34 striking rock-drill operators last month in<br \/>\nthe deadliest security incident since the end of apartheid said<br \/>\nthey were not interested in a deal that failed to include a<br \/>\nbasic wage hike to 12,500 rand ($1,500) a month &#8211; double what<br \/>\nthey now earn.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was there to talk about 12,500 rand, not some peace<br \/>\naccord, so we did not sign any document,&#8221; Molefi Phele, who<br \/>\nrepresented striking workers, told Reuters Television.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* NUM signed agreement but AMCU holds out * NUM hopes for return to work Friday or Monday * Reports of returning workers being intimidated by strikers * Lonmin shares jump 5 pct By Olivia Kumwenda JOHANNESBURG, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s militant AMCU union refused to sign a &#8220;peace deal&#8221; with platinum company [&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-14353","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\/14353","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=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}