{"id":7378,"date":"2012-01-25T21:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/implats-says-rustenburg-operations-still-shut\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T21:10:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T19:10:33","slug":"implats-says-rustenburg-operations-still-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/implats-says-rustenburg-operations-still-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Implats says Rustenburg operations still shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner<br \/>\nImpala Platinum said on Wednesday its Rustenburg<br \/>\noperations remained shut as it started talks with union<br \/>\nofficials representing 5,000 workers it recently fired.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the company provided no further details and<br \/>\nofficials with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were not<br \/>\nimmediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The drill operators downed tools over wages last Friday and<br \/>\nthe subsequent stoppages have been costing the company an<br \/>\nestimated 3,000 ounces a day in lost production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company said on Tuesday it had started dismissing the<br \/>\nworkers because the strike action was declared illegal by a<br \/>\ncourt.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; editing by)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Jan 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner Impala Platinum said on Wednesday its Rustenburg operations remained shut as it started talks with union officials representing 5,000 workers it recently fired. A spokesman for the company provided no further details and officials with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were not immediately available for comment. [&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-7378","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\/7378","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=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}