{"id":63454,"date":"2014-07-04T10:52:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/63454\/violent-strikers-petrol-bomb-company-vulcania-video\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:52:05","slug":"violent-strikers-petrol-bomb-company-vulcania-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/04\/violent-strikers-petrol-bomb-company-vulcania-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent strikers petrol bomb company in Vulcania (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Striking union members &#8212; many armed with sticks and other weapons &#8212; blocked roads and caused chaos in the area, threatening non-striking employees and causing damage to many properties.<\/p>\n<p>One company situated along Molecule Road, Vulcania Reinforcing, was subjected to particularly turbulent acts of violence and the premises were petrol bombed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;There was about 50 or 60 of them, they&#8217;ve destroyed the windows, cars and attempted to burn the transformer with a petrol bomb,&#8221; said Adam Greve from Vulcania Reinforcing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve returned every day since and have been just as violent.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Greve told the Herald that staff members, especially women, were terrified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard that security guards at another company were held at gunpoint,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They cannot get away with this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greve posted a video to YouTube of the workers causing damage to the premises.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KmX6D353ods' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Brakpan police have been monitoring the area.<\/p>\n<p>Numsa embarked on a nationwide strike on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are demanding a 12 per cent salary increase across the board.<\/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='f7dcef5e0ce632bd23e63109b3ebfdaa'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers affiliated to trade union Numsa went on a violent rampage in Vulcania on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":63457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1566,2053,1753],"class_list":["post-63454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-benoni","tag-brakpan","tag-numsa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["benoni","brakpan","numsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63454","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}