{"id":45250,"date":"2013-09-03T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=45250"},"modified":"2013-09-03T18:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:28:17","slug":"post-office-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/45250\/post-office-workers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Office workers strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casual workers at mail processing centres in some parts of Gauteng have gone on strike, the SA Post Office (SAPO) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[This was] part of their lobbying campaign to be appointed into permanent part-time positions,&#8221; the SAPO said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SA Post Office management is currently engaged in talks with representatives of the striking temporary employees and it is expected that the industrial action will end very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The strike started on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The SAPO said the strike would result in mail delivery delays of about 24-hours in some parts of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Retail outlets had not been affected by the strike.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA government news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Customs goes digital\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/44642\/customs-goes-digital\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Customs goes digital<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to \u201cLet\u2019s just get things done\u201d: Carrim\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/44552\/lets-just-get-things-done-carrim\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cLet\u2019s just get things done\u201d: Carrim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Gauteng e-learning rebooted: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/44245\/gauteng-e-learning-rebooted-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Gauteng e-learning rebooted: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casual workers at mail processing centres in some parts of Gauteng have gone on strike, the SA Post Office (SAPO) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,3707,3004],"class_list":["post-45250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-sa-post-office","tag-sapo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45256,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45250\/revisions\/45256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}