{"id":11168,"date":"2017-01-20T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11168"},"modified":"2017-01-20T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:12:25","slug":"world-cup-worker-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11168","title":{"rendered":"World Cup worker killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite, the union for construction workers, called for an immediate and transparent investigation by the Qatar government today (January 20), following news that a British construction worker had died while working on the construction of Khalifa International stadium in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Extending the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s condolences, Unite acting general secretary Gail Cartmail said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe express our sadness at hearing of the death of another construction worker in Qatar and send our condolences to the family at this most difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis tragedy is not an isolated incident and we demand that the Qatari authorities carry out an immediate full and transparent investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite, as the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only construction union is working alongside the Building and Woodworkers International on a programme of joint inspections on the health safety and worker welfare conditions of World Cup 2022 stadia and infrastructure,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis tragedy shows how long overdue such work is and how important it can be. Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s priority will always be the health safety and wellbeing of our sisters and brothers employed in Qatar.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite, the union for construction workers, called for an immediate and transparent investigation by the Qatar government today (January 20), following news that a British construction worker had died while working on the construction of Khalifa International stadium in Doha. &nbsp; Extending the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s condolences, Unite acting general secretary Gail Cartmail said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe express our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[167,476],"wps_subtitle":"Unite demands investigation into death","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11171,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions\/11171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}