{"id":129,"date":"2007-05-29T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-14T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:05:04","slug":"vodacom-strike-inderdict-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/129-vodacom-strike-inderdict-lifted.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom strike inderdict lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Union spokesman Mfanafuthi Sithebe said the court had \u201copened the way for CWU to resume its strike\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cIn his Judgement against Vodacom, Judge M.H. Rampai affirmed the right to strike and called Vodacom\u2019s behaviour a \u201cpernicious practice\u201d.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Members would be consulted about possible strike action, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">On March 12, Vodacom obtained an interim court order preventing workers belonging to the CWU from striking.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After a single day of picketing, before the full strike had begun, the interdict was obtained from the Labour Court, Sithebe said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The industrial action followed an unresolved dispute on the recognition of the CWU by Vodacom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">While the union argued for recognition, the company said in April that the union would only be recognised when 30% of Vodacom employees joined it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The union had mixed reactions to the ruling, Sithebe said. \u201cWe are happy that finally the court did the right thing. But we are also unhappy because justice delayed is justice denied. We are ready to go forward.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=76547\">Comments<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interim interdict that stopped industrial action at Vodacom in March was lifted by the Johannesburg Labour Court, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}