{"id":189,"date":"2007-06-06T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-14T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:09:23","slug":"vodacom-workers-down-tools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/189-vodacom-workers-down-tools-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom workers down tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Workers began with a go-slow on Wednesday morning, to be followed by demonstration and meetings at noon outside all Vodacom premises. Picketing would continue on Thursday. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">CWU deputy chairperson Thabo Mogalane said the action was in support of the union&#8217;s demand for recognition. He explained that every time the CWU wanted to meet the employer, they were told they did not have enough members at Vodacom to be recognised. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The dispute was referred to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration in February. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A one-day strike is scheduled for Friday, with workers to demonstrate at all Vodacom premises and hand over a memorandum to regional offices in major centres. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Vodacom obtained a temporary interdict from the Labour Court in February forbidding a strike. The interdict has recently been lifted. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The CWU said if there was no agreement they would embark on further industrial action, which could include a sympathy strike by CWU members at other companies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=77382\">Comments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom workers began industrial action at all the company&#8217;s premises on Wednesday, 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-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}