{"id":15357,"date":"2012-10-07T17:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/wildcat-strikes-up-stakes-in-s-africa-labour-game\/"},"modified":"2012-10-07T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:36:33","slug":"wildcat-strikes-up-stakes-in-s-africa-labour-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wildcat-strikes-up-stakes-in-s-africa-labour-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcat strikes up stakes in S.Africa labour game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Marikana bloodshed puts labour relations on new footing<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC-union alliance losing grips on labour<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rand falls, confidence wanes due to strikes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Dolan and Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>IKANINI, South Africa, Oct 7 (Reuters) &#8211; The rules of the<br \/>\ngame in South Africa&#8217;s labour market have changed and the new<br \/>\nplayers are workers such as Tshepo Modise and Thulani Soko,<br \/>\nwildcat strikers at mining giant Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n(Amplats).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They feel underpaid, stretched to the limit financially and<br \/>\nbetrayed by established unions they say are more concerned about<br \/>\nties with politicians and management than workers in the shafts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But to a few global mining firms, they are part of an<br \/>\noverpaid workforce breaking their contracts and in the<br \/>\ncrosshairs for sacking as costs are cut at marginal shafts in<br \/>\nSouth Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We no longer want to sit at the table with unions. We&#8217;ve<br \/>\nbeen sabotaged,&#8221; said Modise, a 30-year-old machine operator at<br \/>\nIkanini, a slum settlement next to an Amplats mine 120<br \/>\nkilometres (75 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since the end of apartheid in 1994, workers have won steady<br \/>\nwage increases, but millions of jobless South Africans have<br \/>\nmissed out on the gains, becoming reliant on the state or<br \/>\nrelatives for help.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Marikana bloodshed puts labour relations on new footing * ANC-union alliance losing grips on labour * Rand falls, confidence wanes due to strikes By David Dolan and Jon Herskovitz IKANINI, South Africa, Oct 7 (Reuters) &#8211; The rules of the game in South Africa&#8217;s labour market have changed and the new players are workers [&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-15357","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\/15357","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=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}