{"id":14946,"date":"2012-09-26T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/rpt-gold-fields-strike-spreads-to-beatrix\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:54:48","slug":"rpt-gold-fields-strike-spreads-to-beatrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-gold-fields-strike-spreads-to-beatrix\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-Gold Fields strike spreads to Beatrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Repeats with no changes to text)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields says workers did not return to KDC West<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Strike spreads to Beatrix mine<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Close to 24,000 Gold Fields workers now on strike<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 25 (Reuters) &#8211; World No. 4 bullion<br \/>\nproducer Gold Fields said workers reneged on a deal to<br \/>\nend a two-week strike at its KDC West operation in South Africa<br \/>\nand miners at its Beatrix mine had also downed tools.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A wave of wildcat action is roiling South Africa&#8217;s mines,<br \/>\nincluding a six-week stoppage at platinum producer Lonmin<br \/>\n last month in which 45 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strike is still on, they ignored the agreement reached<br \/>\nFriday night. And the strike has now spread to Beatrix,&#8221; Gold<br \/>\nFields spokesman Willie Jacobsz told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields said on Friday the National Union of Mineworkers<br \/>\n(NUM) agreed that some 15,000 workers at KDC West would return<br \/>\nto work Monday night.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Repeats with no changes to text) * Gold Fields says workers did not return to KDC West * Strike spreads to Beatrix mine * Close to 24,000 Gold Fields workers now on strike By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Sept 25 (Reuters) &#8211; World No. 4 bullion producer Gold Fields said workers reneged on a deal to [&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-14946","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\/14946","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=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}