{"id":15022,"date":"2012-09-28T05:04:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-s-africas-amplats-takes-action-against-strikers\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T05:04:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:04:35","slug":"update-2-s-africas-amplats-takes-action-against-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africas-amplats-takes-action-against-strikers\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa&#8217;s Amplats takes action against strikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Implats makes offer to avert another strike<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats talks tough, may start firing illegal strikers<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Heavy police presence at Rustenburg<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* About 75,000 S.Africa miners off the job<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Sept 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The world&#8217;s<br \/>\ntop platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, began<br \/>\ndisciplinary action against illegal strikers on Thursday and<br \/>\nrival Impala Platinum offered workers a pay rise as the South<br \/>\nAfrican mining industry struggles to end weeks of labour unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A wave of wildcat strikes is disrupting South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nmining sector despite the end of an illegal six-week stoppage at<br \/>\nanother platinum producer, Lonmin , in which 46<br \/>\npeople were killed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a bid to avert a strike, Impala Platinum offered a &#8220;pay<br \/>\nadjustment&#8221; to workers demanding an increase, saying it would<br \/>\nadd almost five percent to its wage bill.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An illegal stoppage at Implats would have brought the labour<br \/>\nunrest full circle this year as its Rustenburg operation, the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s largest platinum mine, was brought to a halt for 6 weeks<br \/>\nin January and February amid a bloody union turf war between the<br \/>\nmilitant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union<br \/>\n(AMCU) and the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Implats makes offer to avert another strike * Amplats talks tough, may start firing illegal strikers * Heavy police presence at Rustenburg * About 75,000 S.Africa miners off the job By Agnieszka Flak RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Sept 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The world&#8217;s top platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, began disciplinary action against illegal strikers [&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-15022","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\/15022","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=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}