{"id":44719,"date":"2013-09-25T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/44719\/strike-continuesornumsas-demonstrations-continue\/"},"modified":"2013-09-25T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:06:28","slug":"strike-continuesornumsas-demonstrations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/09\/25\/strike-continuesornumsas-demonstrations-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Numsa strike continues more reports of damage and intimidation have been received.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Pillay, the human resources manager of Auto and Truck Tyres (Pty) Ltd, informed the GCN that the company&#8217;s vehicles had been stoned and drivers again injured in further protest demonstrations that took this week.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Pillay also commented that &#8220;private vehicles belonging to the company&#8217;s sale representatives have been damaged by rocks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This must stop before someone dies,&#8221; she added.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;When are the SAPS going to do something?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many residents have noticed the protesters carrying sticks as they march through the streets of Germiston, adding to the intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Pillay filed an industrial action report with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa on September 17.<\/p>\n<p>She sited the following as violations of the picketing rules agreed to by RMI and Numsa:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Intimidation of the company&#8217;s employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Stoppage of deliveries to customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Stoppage of deliveries from customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The company&#8217;s white drivers being stoned and injured.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The company&#8217;s sale representatives&#8217; private vehicles being damaged by rocks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the report had been filed, the company proceeded with the steps required to secure a court order against Numsa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='64c6e872abc90f8a480908b92521e25a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numsa&#8217;s demonstrations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1318,979,1753,998,1754,1267],"class_list":["post-44719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-elsburg","tag-germiston","tag-numsa","tag-saps","tag-strikes","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","elsburg","germiston","numsa","SAPS","strikes","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}