{"id":15383,"date":"2012-10-08T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africa-municipal-workers-gear-up-for-national-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:38:49","slug":"s-africa-municipal-workers-gear-up-for-national-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-municipal-workers-gear-up-for-national-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa municipal workers gear up for national strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 8 (Reuters) &#8211; The South African Municipal<br \/>\nWorkers Union (SAMWU) has filed notice to launch a national<br \/>\nstrike, a spokesman said on Monday, in the latest sign that<br \/>\nlabour unrest was widening further byond the mining industry.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The union is mobilising towards a national protest, which<br \/>\nwould begin as soon as this week,&#8221; spokesman Tahir Sema said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The strike, which could lead to a one-day protest or an<br \/>\nindefinite strike, would call for medium and lower-income<br \/>\nworkers to receive market-related salaries and for pay parirty<br \/>\namong workers across the provinces, he added.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; editing by David Dolan)<\/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 8 (Reuters) &#8211; The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has filed notice to launch a national strike, a spokesman said on Monday, in the latest sign that labour unrest was widening further byond the mining industry. &#8220;The union is mobilising towards a national protest, which would begin as soon as this week,&#8221; [&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-15383","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\/15383","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=15383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}