{"id":15529,"date":"2012-10-12T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-s-africa-truckers-sign-wage-deal-strike-off\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:50:25","slug":"update-3-s-africa-truckers-sign-wage-deal-strike-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africa-truckers-sign-wage-deal-strike-off\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa truckers sign wage deal, strike off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* All four trucker unions sign deal<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Three-week strike had caused fuel, cash shortages<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rand firms after announcement<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Wendell Roelf<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, Oct 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South African truck drivers<br \/>\nhave signed a wage deal to end a three-week strike, the freight<br \/>\nemployers group said on Friday, putting an end to a walk-out<br \/>\nthat has hit deliveries of fuel, cash and consumer goods in<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s top economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 truck drivers have taken to the streets in<br \/>\noften violent protests since late September, demanding higher<br \/>\nwages. At least one person was killed and dozens of trucks were<br \/>\ntorched by demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agreement has been signed by everyone. The strike is<br \/>\noff immediately,&#8221; Penwell Lunga, chairman of the Road Freight<br \/>\nEmployers Association told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said workers have agreed to accept wage increases of 10<br \/>\npercent from March 2013, 8 percent the following year and 9<br \/>\npercent for 2015.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All four transport unions were part of the agreement, RFEA<br \/>\nspokeswoman Magretia Brown-Engelbrecht said, although she did<br \/>\nnot reveal details of the deal.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* All four trucker unions sign deal * Three-week strike had caused fuel, cash shortages * Rand firms after announcement By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, Oct 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South African truck drivers have signed a wage deal to end a three-week strike, the freight employers group said on Friday, putting an end to a [&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-15529","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\/15529","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=15529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}