{"id":14482,"date":"2012-09-11T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africas-implats-details-second-pay-bid-by-militant-labour\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:11:53","slug":"s-africas-implats-details-second-pay-bid-by-militant-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-implats-details-second-pay-bid-by-militant-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Implats details second pay bid by militant labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Implats demands would be second pay hike this year<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin strike rumbles on, workers intimidated by strikers<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields&#8217; illegal strike continues<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas and Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Impala<br \/>\nPlatinum faces a second pay bid from miners equal to an<br \/>\n8-10 percent hike granted in April, the world&#8217;s No. 2 platinum<br \/>\nproducer said on Tuesday, and its shares tumbled on the size of<br \/>\nthe latest demand from militant labour.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrest has been sweeping South Africa&#8217;s bellwether mining<br \/>\nsector with a wave of violence that killed 44 people in August,<br \/>\nincluding 34 in a hail of police bullets near the Marikana mine<br \/>\nof platinum producer Lonmin .<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats said on Tuesday the latest pay demand, which it<br \/>\nfirst disclosed last week but did not detail at the time,<br \/>\nresembled an 8-10 percent hike dished out five months ago to end<br \/>\na six-week strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s share price slid over 5 percent on Tuesday as<br \/>\ninvestors digested the scale of the pay hikes being sought,<br \/>\nreflecting jitters about high costs and low prices afflicting<br \/>\nthe industry in Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was no end in sight to the month-long strike that has<br \/>\nparalysed Lonmin after thousands of protesters armed with sticks<br \/>\nand machetes marched in a dramatic show of force on Monday,<br \/>\nvowing to hunt down and kill strike-breakers.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Implats demands would be second pay hike this year * Lonmin strike rumbles on, workers intimidated by strikers * Gold Fields&#8217; illegal strike continues By Sherilee Lakmidas and Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Impala Platinum faces a second pay bid from miners equal to an 8-10 percent hike granted in [&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-14482","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\/14482","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=14482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}