{"id":8662,"date":"2009-07-06T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-06T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T09:56:00","slug":"sabc-workers-to-start-protest-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/8662-sabc-workers-to-start-protest-on-monday.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC workers to start protest on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Workers Association of SA (Mwasa) earlier said it expected all of  its 600 workers to take part, while the Communication Workers&#8217; Union (CWU) said  around 1000 of its members<br \/>would participate.<\/p>\n<p>The SABC has just over 3000 staff members.<\/p>\n<p>The unions went to the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration  when the SABC revised a 12.2% multi-term pay offer it was supposed to have  implemented in April, to 8.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Court in Johannesburg dismissed a bid by the SABC last week to  stop its workers from striking.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters are expected to picket around lunch time, will not work  overtime and will only do the duties in their job descriptions.<\/p>\n<p>If there is no progress in negotiations with the employer, a complete stay  away will start on July 13, unions warned.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=179996\">SABC workers protest<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of the SABC workforce is expected to start protest action in a wage dispute on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662"}],"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=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}