{"id":15684,"date":"2012-10-18T06:05:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/analysis-youre-fired\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T06:05:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:05:01","slug":"analysis-youre-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/analysis-youre-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS-&quot;You&#8217;re fired&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mass sackings just part of negotiations<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum, gold mines under financial pressure<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields &#8220;ultimatum&#8221; falls due on Thursday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 17 (Reuters) &#8211; According to his &#8220;final<br \/>\nultimatum&#8221; to wildcat strikers, Gold Fields chief<br \/>\nexecutive Nick Holland is hours away from firing 23,000 miners.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the poisonous atmosphere of the worst industrial unrest<br \/>\nin South Africa since the end of apartheid, everything points to<br \/>\nhim making good on his threat on Thursday, adding to the 15,000<br \/>\nmen already sacked by platinum mines in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The numbers are dramatic, and have political implications<br \/>\nfor President Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress<br \/>\n(ANC), since each miner probably supports up to 10 dependents.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The reality, however, is that the mass dismissals are just<br \/>\nanother tactic &#8211; albeit a hard-ball one &#8211; in the long standoff<br \/>\nbetween management and workers over pay and conditions. When a<br \/>\ndeal is finally reached, most will get their jobs back.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Re-hiring thousands of miners may be a logistical nightmare<br \/>\nfor the likes of Gold Fields, the world&#8217;s fourth largest bullion<br \/>\nproducer, but the bosses know &#8211; as do the workers &#8211; that the<br \/>\ncompany has few other options if it is to restart production.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mass sackings just part of negotiations * Platinum, gold mines under financial pressure * Gold Fields &#8220;ultimatum&#8221; falls due on Thursday By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Oct 17 (Reuters) &#8211; According to his &#8220;final ultimatum&#8221; to wildcat strikers, Gold Fields chief executive Nick Holland is hours away from firing 23,000 miners. In the poisonous atmosphere [&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-15684","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\/15684","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=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}