{"id":15242,"date":"2012-10-04T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/wage-talks-in-s-africa-truck-driver-strike-collapse\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T15:32:19","slug":"wage-talks-in-s-africa-truck-driver-strike-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wage-talks-in-s-africa-truck-driver-strike-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage talks in S.Africa truck driver strike collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Wage talks to end a strike<br \/>\nby more than 20,000 truck drivers in South Africa have collapsed<br \/>\nafter unions rejected the employers 18 percent pay rise offer<br \/>\nover two years, the Road Freight Employers Association said on<br \/>\nThursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This afternoon the unions responded that once again they do<br \/>\nnot accept the deal which met their demand of 18 percent over<br \/>\ntwo years,&#8221; the employer group said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fuel suppliers have started to feel the pinch as the strike<br \/>\nentered its second week, with deliveries to pumps delayed and<br \/>\nstations running out of certain types of fuel. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Wage talks to end a strike by more than 20,000 truck drivers in South Africa have collapsed after unions rejected the employers 18 percent pay rise offer over two years, the Road Freight Employers Association said on Thursday. &#8220;This afternoon the unions responded that once again they do not accept [&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-15242","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\/15242","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=15242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}