{"id":8504,"date":"2011-11-30T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:43:28","slug":"uk-2-million-public-sector-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/11\/uk-2-million-public-sector-workers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: 2 million public sector workers strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2011\/nov\/30\/public-sector-workers-strike-uk\">The Guardian: Day of strikes as millions heed unions&#8217; call to fight pension cuts<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Disruption across UK as many services come to virtual halt<br \/>\n\u2022 Airports, schools, rail services and hospitals affected<br \/>\n\u2022 Reform of public sector pensions is at heart of dispute<\/p>\n<p>The UK is experiencing the worst disruption to services in decades as more than 2 million public sector workers stage a nationwide strike, closing schools and bringing councils and hospitals to a virtual standstill.<\/p>\n<p>The strike by more than 30 unions over cuts to public sector pensions started at midnight, leading to the closure of most state schools; cancellation of refuse collections; rail service and tunnel closures; the postponement of thousands of non-emergency hospital operations; and possible delays at airports and ferry terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: Day of strikes as millions heed unions&#8217; call to fight pension cuts \u2022 Disruption across UK as many services come to virtual halt \u2022 Airports, schools, rail services and hospitals affected \u2022 Reform of public sector pensions is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/11\/uk-2-million-public-sector-workers-strike\/\">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":[2272,2275],"tags":[406478,1288959,2667],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strikes-labor-disputes","category-unions","tag-pension-cuts","tag-strikes","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","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=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8505,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}