{"id":1658,"date":"2010-05-12T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2010\/05\/12\/strikes-paralyse-south-african-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:31:56","slug":"strikes-paralyse-south-african-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/africa\/strikes-paralyse-south-african-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Strikes paralyse South African ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg-based Transnet stuck to its original 11% wage offer, but the new deal also provided more workers with medical insurance, gives 1,000 contract workers full-time jobs, entitles new workers to a bonus and gives each worker a one-time payment of Rand1,000 ($126), according to unions.<\/p>\n<p>While the United Transport and Allied Trade Union, Transnet&#8217;s biggest union, reportedly favoured the deal, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu), the smaller union representing Transnet workers, had indicated that it might not accept the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the deal is accepted and workers return to their posts, it is expected that it will take weeks to clear the backlog at South Africa\u2019s ports.<\/p>\n<p>The strike prompted Anglo American, Xstrata and the world&#8217;s top steelmaker ArcelorMittal to declare force majeure on the supply of iron ore, ferrochrome and steel respectively, while Transnet declared force majeure on coal destined for export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strike that has crippled South Africa\u2019s port and rail operations this month is still unsettled, with transport unions still at loggerheads about the wage deal on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}