FACTBOX-South Africa's economy facing more strikes

JOHANNESBURG, July 23 (Reuters) - South African petroleum sector workers agreed to a 9.5 percent pay increase on Thursday but the union said members might still down tools in sympathy with other workers.

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Below are details of sectors affected and wage settlements:

GOLD

South African gold producers raised their pay offer for miners on Tuesday, averting a possible strike for now.

The threat of a gold miners' strike has added to a wave of industrial action, raising pressures on newly elected President Jacob Zuma to adopt a more leftist approach to economic policy.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) -- South Africa's biggest union -- said gold employers raised their offer to 9-10.5 percent from a previously proposed 8-10 percent.

Employers have also offered to raise the minimum wage to 4,000 rand ($520) a month, the union said.

The unions are due to meet on July 28 for a final session of negotiations before deciding whether to declare a strike.

South African gold producers including AngloGold Ashanti (ANGJ.J), Gold Fields (GFIJ.J) and Harmony (HARJ.J) negotiate as one under the country's Chamber of Mines.

PLATINUM

Wage negotiations in the platinum sector are continuing with no specific threat yet at the world's No. 1 and 2 producers Anglo Platinum (AMSJ.J) and Impala Platinum (IMPJ.J).

The NUM rejected last week an improved 8.5 percent wage offer by Impala Platinum (IMPJ.J), the world's No. 2 producer.

It lowered its own demand to 15.5 percent from an initial 20 percent. [ID:nLH242607]

Wage talks with bigger rival Anglo Platinum carry no strike threat yet. [ID:nLU596401]

COAL

South Africa's coal sector employers made an improved wage hike offer to workers of 9-11 percent this week, the NUM said. [ID:nLL221769]

The coal producers last offered a pay increase of 8.5-9.5 percent, below the union's 15 percent demands.

Solidarity union said on Thursday it was confident a wage deal could be reached with coal firms without workers striking, after companies raised their wage hike offer.

Unions are now consulting their members on whether to accept the offer, with a final meeting scheduled for July 28.

Companies included in the wage talks include global miner Anglo American Plc's (AAL.L) Anglo Coal unit, Xstrata (XTA.L) and South African diversified miner Exxaro (EXXJ.J).

PAPER, CHEMICALS

South African paper and chemical sector workers began a strike on Monday after wage talks failed.

The bigger Chemical, Energy Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (CEPPWAWU) had been in talks with employers for a 10 percent pay rise, but employers only offered an 8 percent increase, which is in line with inflation.

CEPPWAWU has said it represents 65,000 members. Employers in the sectors it covers include paper makers Sappi (SAPJ.J) and Mondi (MNDJ.J), petrochemicals group Sasol (SOLJ.J), state-owned oil company PetroSA, and chemicals firms African Oxygen Ltd. (AFXJ.J) and Omnia (OMNJ.J).

Negotiations continued on Thursday.

Chemicals group Afrox (AFXJ.J) said on Tuesday the sector would meet unions this week to end the strike.

RAIL

Workers in the commuter rail industry may declare a strike this week. Metrorail has revised its offer to 7-8.5 percent but unions remain unhappy. South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union (SATAWU) is demanding 12.5 percent.

DOCTORS

A doctors' wage strike lasted about two weeks with doctors demanding more than 50 percent in pay rises. Most doctors are back at work even though some demands are yet to be met.

PUBLIC BROADCASTER

Workers at South Africa's public broadcaster SABC rejected the latest wage offer made to them by the broadcaster on Monday. SABC offered rises of 9.25-10.25 percent, short of a 12.2 percent hike requested by the workers.

Should SABC fail to meet their demands, the workers plan to strike, threatening a nationwide television blackout for the first time since 1976.

MUNICIPAL WORKERS

Council workers will decide on Friday whether to go on strike from Monday, July 27 to press local government to raise wages. The South African Municipal Workers Union says the strike could affect up to 150,000 civil servants, crippling the public sector across the country.

The union wants a 15 percent pay rise.

WAGE SETTLEMENTS:

PETROLEUM

CEPPWAWU union said on Thursday it had agreed to a 9.5 percent wage hike offered by fuel companies, but its members could still down tools next week in solidarity with other striking workers. [ID:nLN321763]

Solidarity union said on Monday it had reached a deal with petroleum sector bosses for a 9.5 percent pay rise, averting a possible strike that could have affected fuel supplies. [ID:nWEA1499].

CONSTRUCTION

South African construction workers ended a week-long strike that disrupted work on stadiums for the 2010 World Cup on Wednesday, after they agreed to a 12 percent wage increase.

DE BEERS

South African workers at De Beers, the world's No. 1 diamond producer, have agreed to a pay rise of 9 percent and dropped a demand for more because the industry has been hit by the global crisis, their union said on Friday. [ID:nLH654228]

(Reporting by Muchena Zigomo, Agnieszka Flak and Shapi Shacinda)