{"id":15392,"date":"2012-10-09T05:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T03:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-s-africa-state-workers-join-strike-bandwagon\/"},"modified":"2012-10-09T05:39:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T03:39:02","slug":"update-3-s-africa-state-workers-join-strike-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africa-state-workers-join-strike-bandwagon\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa state workers join strike bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Municipal workers latest to threaten industrial action<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kumba losing 120,000 tonnes a day of iron ore output<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Xstrata latest platinum firm to suffer wildcat walkout<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak  and Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s local<br \/>\ngovernment workers&#8217; union said on Monday it would launch a<br \/>\nstrike over pay in the next few days, the first sign of a wave<br \/>\nof labour unrest in Africa&#8217;s biggest economy spreading from the<br \/>\nmines into the public sector.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since August, close to 100,000 workers, including 75,000 in<br \/>\nthe mining sector, have downed tools in often illegal and<br \/>\nviolent protests that look likely to hit growth this year and<br \/>\nundermine the government&#8217;s efforts to cut its budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has promised to reduce the<br \/>\ndeficit from the 4.6 percent of GDP forecast for this financial<br \/>\nyear. Any public sector wage increase would make that more<br \/>\ndifficult.<\/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; South African Municipal<br \/>\nWorkers Union (SAMWU) spokesman Tahir Sema said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A majority of SAMWU&#8217;s 190,000 members are expected to join<br \/>\nthe strike for &#8220;market-related salaries&#8221; which may last for one<br \/>\nday or drag on indefinitely, Sema said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Municipal workers latest to threaten industrial action * Kumba losing 120,000 tonnes a day of iron ore output * Xstrata latest platinum firm to suffer wildcat walkout By Agnieszka Flak and Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Oct 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s local government workers&#8217; union said on Monday it would launch a strike over pay [&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-15392","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\/15392","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=15392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}