{"id":110094,"date":"2020-02-20T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110094"},"modified":"2020-02-20T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T08:10:00","slug":"waste-collectors-go-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/20\/waste-collectors-go-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste collectors on go-slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waste collectors downed tools on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Workers told\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0that they would not return to work until their demands are met.<\/p>\n<p>They are demanding that the municipality address the awarding of tenders, road worthlessness of their vehicles, shortage of trucks and personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are also protesting against cadre deployment and outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p>They also say that a tender for the dumpsite was awarded to a company, however, workers have to maintain the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Municipal Manager Bheki Khenisa said he spoke to the worker\u2019s leaders on Thursday, who agreed to send him an email with their grievances.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they reached an agreement that the workers would go back to work and he would address them on Tuesday, on condition that they return to work in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many areas in the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality have been affected by the solid waste workers go-slow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":110061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[23441,10010,12898,23439,23440,10333],"class_list":["post-110094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-garbage-removal-services-halted-after-municipal-strike","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-municipal-waste-collectors-on-strike","tag-rubbish-piles-up-after-waste-collectors-go-on-strike","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["garbage removal services halted after municipal strike","local news","middelburg news","municipal waste collectors on strike","rubbish piles up after waste collectors go on strike","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}