{"id":15417,"date":"2012-10-09T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-about-one-third-of-south-african-truckers-end-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-10-09T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:42:05","slug":"update-2-about-one-third-of-south-african-truckers-end-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-about-one-third-of-south-african-truckers-end-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-About one third of South African truckers end strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Three smaller unions agree to return to work<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Biggest transport union under pressure to follow<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Fuel, consumer good, cash deliveries disrupted<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak  and Wendell Roelf<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 9 (Reuters) &#8211; About a third of striking<br \/>\nSouth African truckers have agreed to return to work on<br \/>\nWednesday, easing pressure on Africa&#8217;s biggest economy where two<br \/>\nweeks of labour unrest in the transport sector have hit supplies<br \/>\nof fuel, cash and consumer goods.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But disputes in the mining sector escalated after Gold One<br \/>\n  fired the majority of its 1,900 workers at its<br \/>\nEzulwini operation, paralysed since last week by a wildcat<br \/>\nstrike. Atlatsa Resources said it had also fired 2,161<br \/>\nminers for an illegal strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s decision by three small transport unions with<br \/>\n15,000 members to abandon the truckers strike puts pressure on<br \/>\nthe biggest labour group, the South African Transport and Allied<br \/>\nWorkers Union (SATAWU), which represents about 28,000 workers,<br \/>\nto reach a deal and suspend its calls to widen the strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since August, almost 100,000 workers across South Africa,<br \/>\nincluding 75,000 in the mining sector, have downed tools in<br \/>\noften illegal and violent strikes that may hit economic growth<br \/>\nthis year and undermine investor confidence in the minerals hub.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The three unions advised that they came to this decision in<br \/>\nlight of the fact that employers have now offered double digits<br \/>\n(a pay rise) for the year,&#8221; an employers association said. It<br \/>\nwas still in talks with all groups to hammer out a final deal.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Three smaller unions agree to return to work * Biggest transport union under pressure to follow * Fuel, consumer good, cash deliveries disrupted By Agnieszka Flak and Wendell Roelf JOHANNESBURG, Oct 9 (Reuters) &#8211; About a third of striking South African truckers have agreed to return to work on Wednesday, easing pressure on Africa&#8217;s [&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-15417","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\/15417","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=15417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}