{"id":9386,"date":"2009-08-27T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-27T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:21:00","slug":"talks-to-end-post-office-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/9386-talks-to-end-post-office-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"Talks to end Post Office strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CWU deputy president Mathapelo Mphuthi said the meeting between the union and South African Post Office (Sapo) management would take place in Pretoria at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Workers downed tools last Thursday, with the union charging that whites earned more than blacks for doing the same job.<\/p>\n<p>Services affected most were mail collection and delivery, and door-to-door and counter-to-counter parcel delivery.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, thousands of protesting Pretoria post office employees gathered outside the city hall to hand over a memorandum of grievances to Sapo chief executive officer Motshoanetsi Lefoka.<\/p>\n<p>Workers gave Sapo management three days to respond to their demands, vowing not to return to work until an agreement was signed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=188968\"><strong>Post Office strike<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talks to end a dispute which saw postal workers downing tools are set to resume on Thursday, the Communication Workers&#039; Union said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386"}],"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=9386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}