{"id":9385,"date":"2013-08-20T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9385"},"modified":"2013-08-20T08:21:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:21:27","slug":"solidarity-threatens-strike-at-lonmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9385","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity threatens strike at Lonmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/solidatity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9386\" alt=\"solidatity\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/solidatity.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/solidatity.jpg 240w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/solidatity-148x111.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/solidatity-31x23.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/solidatity-38x29.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Platinum producer Lonmin faces possible strike action from minority unions that were left out of a recognition agreement it signed last week with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trade union Solidarity says it is considering staging a strike at the mine in a bid to have its recognition at the company restored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union has declared a dispute with Lonmin over the issue and has taken the matter to the government labour mediator, a step towards legal strike action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ironically, Lonmin, the world&#8217;s third-largest producer of platinum, signed the agreement with Amcu in part to avert a threatened strike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Solidarity general-secretary Gideon du Plessis says they have no choice but to strike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amcu president Joseph Mthunjwa says the agreement accommodates other unions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mthunjwa says past agreements did not allow for any other minority unions to be recognised. &#8211; SABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platinum producer Lonmin faces possible strike action from minority unions that were left out of a recognition agreement it signed last week with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu). Trade union Solidarity says it is considering staging a strike at the mine in a bid to have its recognition at the company restored. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9385\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solidarity threatens strike at Lonmin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[770,5291,768,5292,2599,243],"class_list":["post-9385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-finance","category-news","tag-amcu","tag-gold-producer","tag-lonmin","tag-minority-union","tag-solidarity","tag-strike"],"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\/solidatity.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385","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=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9389,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions\/9389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}