{"id":8107,"date":"2012-02-18T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T12:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/implats-agrees-to-re-hire-all-dismissed-workers-union\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T12:13:40","slug":"implats-agrees-to-re-hire-all-dismissed-workers-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/implats-agrees-to-re-hire-all-dismissed-workers-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Implats agrees to re-hire all dismissed workers -union"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n

JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 18 (Reuters) – Impala Platinum
\n, the world’s second-largest platinum producer, has
\nagreed to re-instate all 17,200 workers who were dismissed
\nfollowing an illegal strike, aiming to end a dispute that
\nparalysed the company’s biggest mine, the miners’ union said on
\nSaturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

South African riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and
\nwater cannon this week at hundreds of striking miners who went
\non the rampage at Implats’ Rustenburg plant, the world’s single
\nbiggest platinum mine.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Production at Rustenburg, which accounts for 60 percent of
\nImplat’s output, came to a halt a month ago after the company
\nsacked 17,200 employees following a Jan. 12 wildcat strike over
\nbonuses. The strike is costing the company an average of 3,000
\nounces of platinum a day.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“The company agreed to re-employ all the 17,200 workers and
\nthat as soon as all the workers are back at work, both the
\nNational Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Implats will meet to
\nengage on all outstanding issues,” the NUM said in a statement.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The union urged all workers to return to work next week and
\nsaid it would call for a general strike at Implats should the
\ncompany fail to deliver on its promises to re-hire all of the
\ndismissed employees.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the strike began, the price of platinum, a key
\ningredient in catalytic converters in cars, has climbed nearly 9
\npercent, in part because of fears about supply disruptions.
\nSouth Africa is home to 80 percent of global platinum reserves. <\/p>\n

(Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Susan Fenton)<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JOHANNESBURG Feb 18 (Reuters) – Impala Platinum , the world’s second-largest platinum producer, has agreed to re-instate all 17,200 workers who were dismissed following an illegal strike, aiming to end a dispute that paralysed the company’s biggest mine, the miners’ union said on Saturday. South African riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water […]<\/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-8107","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\/8107","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=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}