{"id":7514,"date":"2012-01-30T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/implats-says-rustenburg-operation-remains-shut\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:20:39","slug":"implats-says-rustenburg-operation-remains-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/implats-says-rustenburg-operation-remains-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Implats says Rustenburg operation remains shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner<br \/>\nImpala Platinum said on Monday its Rustenburg<br \/>\noperations remained shut after the majority of workers staging<br \/>\nan illegal strike over wages failed to return to work.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats said it had been granted a further court order<br \/>\ndeclaring the strike illegal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The failure of the workforce to report for work this<br \/>\nmorning is due to an alternative union &#8230; who have, despite no<br \/>\nformal process in place, attempted to gain recognition at the<br \/>\nRustenburg operation,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 5,000 drill operators downed tools on Jan. 20. The<br \/>\ncompany dismissed them after the stoppage was declared illegal.<br \/>\nThe workers have been told to reapply for their positions.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/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 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner Impala Platinum said on Monday its Rustenburg operations remained shut after the majority of workers staging an illegal strike over wages failed to return to work. Implats said it had been granted a further court order declaring the strike illegal. &#8220;The failure of the workforce to report [&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-7514","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\/7514","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=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}