{"id":16485,"date":"2012-11-07T20:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/update-2-s-africa-coal-firms-agree-wage-deal-to-avoid-unrest\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T20:39:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:39:36","slug":"update-2-s-africa-coal-firms-agree-wage-deal-to-avoid-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africa-coal-firms-agree-wage-deal-to-avoid-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa coal firms agree wage deal to avoid unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Agree to hike wages by up to 5 pct at entry level<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Deal to stem unrest and threat to dominant union<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Other miners get 2,000 rand once-off payment<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Nov 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Coal companies in South<br \/>\nAfrica signed a surprise wage deal with unions on Wednesday in<br \/>\nan effort to avoid a wave of deadly illegal strikes that have<br \/>\nrocked the country&#8217;s gold and platinum sectors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Chamber of Mines said the companies, which include Anglo<br \/>\nAmerican, had agreed to raise certain entry-level wages<br \/>\nby up to 5 percent and offered one-off payments to higher<br \/>\ncategories of workers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The main wage agreements in the coal sector do not expire<br \/>\nuntil the middle of next year, but militant unions have ignored<br \/>\nexisting contracts in platinum and gold, leading to rolling<br \/>\nwildcat action that has led to the killing of over 50 people so<br \/>\nfar this year, most of them shot dead by police.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Phillemon Motlhamme, deputy head for industrial relations at<br \/>\nthe chamber, said the body that represents the industry was<br \/>\napproached by unions in September to ensure that illegal strikes<br \/>\nwould not spread to coal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the other two<br \/>\nunions asked how we can strengthen our collective bargaining<br \/>\nframework and ensure continuous stability in the coal sector,&#8221;<br \/>\nhe said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Agree to hike wages by up to 5 pct at entry level * Deal to stem unrest and threat to dominant union * Other miners get 2,000 rand once-off payment By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Nov 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Coal companies in South Africa signed a surprise wage deal with unions on Wednesday in an [&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-16485","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\/16485","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=16485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}