{"id":175199,"date":"2016-08-08T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T09:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175199"},"modified":"2016-08-08T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T09:38:32","slug":"eskom-workers-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/175199-eskom-workers-go-on-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"Eskom workers go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NUM members employed by Eskom have downed tools as part of a wage strike.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Eskom\/num-begins-strike-gainst-eskom-over-wages-20160808\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fin24<\/strong><\/a>, Eskom said the\u00a0strike had not yet affected its 27 power stations.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said its employees\u00a0were prohibited by law from striking.<\/p>\n<p>NUM said its members at three Eskom power stations were on strike, with more workers set to join them.<\/p>\n<p>The union stated that wage talks with Eskom were deadlocked over the weekend &#8211; which is offering a 7% increase.<\/p>\n<p>NUM is demanding a\u00a012% increase for maximum wage earners and a 13% increase for minimum wage earners.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/173108-more-renewable-energy-will-make-electricity-more-expensive-eskom-ceo.html\">More renewable energy will make electricity more expensive: Eskom CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/172638-no-load-shedding-for-the-foreseeable-future-eskom.html\">No load shedding for the foreseeable future: Eskom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUM members employed by Eskom have downed tools as part of a wage strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":130890,"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":[27995],"tags":[36,181,8367],"class_list":["post-175199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175199"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175201,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175199\/revisions\/175201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}