{"id":15426,"date":"2012-10-10T05:42:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-4-some-s-african-truckers-suspend-strike-bulk-press-on\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T05:42:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:42:47","slug":"update-4-some-s-african-truckers-suspend-strike-bulk-press-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-some-s-african-truckers-suspend-strike-bulk-press-on\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Some S.African truckers suspend strike, bulk press on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Two 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; Some of South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nstriking truckers have agreed to return to work on Wednesday,<br \/>\neasing pressure on Africa&#8217;s biggest economy where two weeks of<br \/>\nlabour unrest in the transport sector have hit supplies of fuel,<br \/>\ncash 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>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>Two transport unions with 5,500 members agreed to abandon<br \/>\nthe truckers&#8217; strike, but the biggest labour group, the South<br \/>\nAfrican Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) which<br \/>\nrepresents about 28,000 workers, pressed on with the boycott.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another 9,500-strong transport union denied reports its<br \/>\nmembers would also suspend strike action, saying negotiations<br \/>\nwere continuing.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Two 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; Some of South Africa&#8217;s striking truckers have agreed to return to work on Wednesday, easing pressure on Africa&#8217;s biggest economy [&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-15426","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\/15426","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=15426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}