{"id":480,"date":"2007-07-02T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-02T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T13:24:00","slug":"vodacom-workers-down-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/480-vodacom-workers-down-tools.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom workers down tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Union spokesperson Mfanafuthi Sithebe said negotiations between the two parties broke down last Monday. The union is protesting for better working conditions and recognition of the union. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sithebe said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodacom.co.za\">Vodacom<\/a> was attempting to &quot;do away with the union&quot; by arguing that it did not hold a membership of 30% of Vodacom employees. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We have reached the required threshold,&quot; he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Other workers were expected to join the strike on Tuesday and Wednesday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Picketing and demonstrations were expected to take place at the Midrand, Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town Vodacom offices. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vodacom could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79957\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at Vodacom downed tools on Monday after negotiations between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the company broke down, the CWU said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}