{"id":14487,"date":"2012-09-11T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/corrected-update-1-impala-platinum-workers-demand-second-wage-hike\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:11:59","slug":"corrected-update-1-impala-platinum-workers-demand-second-wage-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/corrected-update-1-impala-platinum-workers-demand-second-wage-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Impala Platinum workers demand second wage hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Corrects to clarify size of wage demand in first paragraph)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum,<br \/>\nthe world&#8217;s No.2 platinum producer, said on Tuesday workers had<br \/>\ndemanded a second pay hike this year, equal to a pay increase<br \/>\ngranted in April after a 6-week strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The demand comes as South African mining companies grapple<br \/>\nwith a wave of strikes that last month led to the death of 44<br \/>\npeople, 34 at the hands of the police.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unrest has also spread to gold producers, with Gold<br \/>\nFields reporting that 15,000 miners had embarked on a<br \/>\nwildcat strike at its KDC operations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats granted workers an increase after a strike shut down<br \/>\nproduction at its key Rustenburg operations in January and<br \/>\nFebruary this year, but the platinum producer says workers now<br \/>\nwant more.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that current tensions are an issue for the<br \/>\nentire industry,&#8221; said Implats chief executive Terence Goodlace<br \/>\nin a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said that profit margins were under severe pressure &#8220;with<br \/>\nconsequences for all concerned&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s platinum industry has been struggling to<br \/>\nsurvive as input costs such as electricity have spiked and<br \/>\nmetals prices fall.<br \/>\n($1 = 8.1512 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas; editing by David Dolan)<\/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>(Corrects to clarify size of wage demand in first paragraph) JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum, the world&#8217;s No.2 platinum producer, said on Tuesday workers had demanded a second pay hike this year, equal to a pay increase granted in April after a 6-week strike. The demand comes as South African mining companies grapple [&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-14487","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\/14487","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=14487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}