{"id":9314,"date":"2013-08-19T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2013-08-19T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:44:11","slug":"motor-industry-workers-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9314","title":{"rendered":"Motor industry workers to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/benzfabriek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9315\" alt=\"benzfabriek\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/benzfabriek.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>More than 30 000 assembly line workers in the motor manufacturing industry are expected to down tools today. This after wage talks between the seven biggest manufacturers and metalworkers&#8217; union Numsa deadlocked.<\/p>\n<p>The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is demanding a 14% pay increase, while employers are offering between 7.5% and 8.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The motor industry-dependant Eastern Cape, with its three manufacturers, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and General Motors, is expected to be hard hit.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber Kevin Hustler says, &#8220;The concern always around the automotive trade is that it is an anchor industry in the Nelson Mandela region and parts of the Eastern Cape. A strike right now is a threat to production as well as local and international orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;If the strike continues for a protracted time, the greater the effect will be for businesses themselves and the economy as a whole. At this time South Africa is affected quite strongly by lack of confidence by both business and foreign investors. This does not bode well for building confidence in international markets.&#8221; &#8211; SABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 000 assembly line workers in the motor manufacturing industry are expected to down tools today. This after wage talks between the seven biggest manufacturers and metalworkers&#8217; union Numsa deadlocked. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is demanding a 14% pay increase, while employers are offering between 7.5% and 8.5%. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9314\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motor industry workers to strike&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[610,5258,4477,5256,5259,60,243,5257],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-finance","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-eastern-cape","tag-general-motors","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-motor-industry","tag-nelson-mandela-bay-business-chamber","tag-numsa","tag-strike","tag-volkswagen"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/benzfabriek.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}