{"id":15300,"date":"2012-10-05T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/safrica-freight-industry-losing-141-mlnweek-in-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:33:07","slug":"safrica-freight-industry-losing-141-mlnweek-in-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/safrica-freight-industry-losing-141-mlnweek-in-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"SAfrica freight industry losing $141 mln\/week in strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; A strike by more than 20,000<br \/>\ntruck drivers in South Africa is costing the freight industry<br \/>\n1.2 billion rand ($141 million) in lost revenue each week, an<br \/>\nindustry body said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Estimates indicate that employees in this industry are<br \/>\nlosing in the region of 270 million rand in wages per week<br \/>\nduring the strike, with around 1.2 billion rand in turnover<br \/>\nbeing lost on the part of industry per week,&#8221; the Road Freight<br \/>\nEmployers Association said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talks between unions and employers collapsed on Thursday<br \/>\nafter the workers rejected the latest pay rise offer. The strike<br \/>\nhas been on for two weeks.<br \/>\n($1 = 8.5083 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Writing by Agnieszka Flak; Editing<br \/>\nby Ed Cropley)<\/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>CAPE TOWN Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; A strike by more than 20,000 truck drivers in South Africa is costing the freight industry 1.2 billion rand ($141 million) in lost revenue each week, an industry body said on Friday. &#8220;Estimates indicate that employees in this industry are losing in the region of 270 million rand 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-15300","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\/15300","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=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}