{"id":14392,"date":"2012-09-08T03:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/militant-south-africa-union-tells-lonmin-to-pay-up\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T03:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:56:56","slug":"militant-south-africa-union-tells-lonmin-to-pay-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/militant-south-africa-union-tells-lonmin-to-pay-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Militant South Africa union tells Lonmin to pay up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Striking workers face a Monday deadline<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ruling ANC blames Lonmin for labour strife<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin has lost output worth about $95 million<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking workers at<br \/>\nLonmin&#8217;s South African platinum mines where 44 died last month<br \/>\nin labour strife will stay off the job until their demands for<br \/>\nhefty pay hikes are met, a union leader said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Workers are facing a Monday deadline to return to the Lonmin<br \/>\nPlc  mines paralysed by a four-week strike that<br \/>\nhas sent company shares plummeting, raised world platinum prices<br \/>\nand stoked worries of labour unrest spreading through the mining<br \/>\nsector of Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the employer is prepared to make an offer on the<br \/>\ntable, we shall make ourselves available,&#8221; Joseph Mathunjwa,<br \/>\npresident at the militant Association of Mineworkers and<br \/>\nConstruction Union (AMCU), told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Lonmin said 2 percent of shift workers reported<br \/>\nto their posts. Miners have said they have been threatened by<br \/>\nstriking miners with death if they go back into the shafts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The strike was sparked by a turf war between the established<br \/>\nN ational Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and AMCU at the Marikana<br \/>\nmine and has led to about 3,000 &#8212; mostly rock drill operators<br \/>\n&#8212; of Lonmin&#8217;s 28,000-strong South Africa workforce to walk out.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Striking workers face a Monday deadline * Ruling ANC blames Lonmin for labour strife * Lonmin has lost output worth about $95 million By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking workers at Lonmin&#8217;s South African platinum mines where 44 died last month in labour strife will stay off the job until their [&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-14392","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\/14392","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=14392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}