{"id":7716,"date":"2009-12-07T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7716"},"modified":"2009-12-07T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:11:09","slug":"irish-unions-call-off-thursdays-strike-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/12\/irish-unions-call-off-thursdays-strike-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish unions call off Thursday&#8217;s strike -government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSDUB00313120091201\">Irish unions call off Thursday&#8217;s strike -government<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DUBLIN, Dec 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Irish trade unions have agreed to call off a fresh public sector strike on Thursday against planned spending cuts in next week&#8217;s budget for 2010, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 250,000 nurses, teachers and other public workers held a one-day strike last week over government plans to cut the public sector pay bill by 1.3 billion euros in the Dec. 9 budget and they had threatened a second day of action for Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: Irish unions call off Thursday&#8217;s strike -government DUBLIN, Dec 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Irish trade unions have agreed to call off a fresh public sector strike on Thursday against planned spending cuts in next week&#8217;s budget for 2010, Prime Minister &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/12\/irish-unions-call-off-thursdays-strike-government\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272],"tags":[2847,1288960],"class_list":["post-7716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strikes-labor-disputes","tag-ireland","tag-strikes-labor-disputes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716\/revisions\/7717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}