{"id":6131,"date":"2011-12-15T00:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/s-africas-solidarity-says-seals-wage-deal-with-lonmin\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T00:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:19:05","slug":"s-africas-solidarity-says-seals-wage-deal-with-lonmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-solidarity-says-seals-wage-deal-with-lonmin\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Solidarity says seals wage deal with Lonmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Dec 14 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade<br \/>\nunion Solidarity said on Wednesday it has reached a two-year<br \/>\nwage agreement with platinum miner Lonmin that will see<br \/>\nits members get pay rises of up to 8 percent.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin, the world&#8217;s No. 3 platinum producer, also<br \/>\nsigned a deal with the bigger National Union of Mineworkers<br \/>\nearlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Solidarity said the increase will range between 6.5 percent<br \/>\nand 8 percent, depending on worker category and performance, and<br \/>\nwill be backdated to Oct 1.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bigger rivals Impala Platinum and Anglo American<br \/>\nPlatinum reached agreements earlier this year with<br \/>\nSouth African unions but had to cough up above inflation wage<br \/>\nincreases over the next two years which ranged from 8-10<br \/>\npercent. Annual inflation was 6.1 percent in November.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Dec 14 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday it has reached a two-year wage agreement with platinum miner Lonmin that will see its members get pay rises of up to 8 percent. Lonmin, the world&#8217;s No. 3 platinum producer, also signed a deal with the bigger National Union of Mineworkers [&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-6131","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\/6131","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=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}