{"id":11438,"date":"2017-02-10T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2017-02-10T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:23:58","slug":"ferry-strikes-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11438","title":{"rendered":"Ferry strikes suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Progress has been made in the Woolwich Ferry dispute talks and both today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Friday 10) and next Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 17) 24-hour strikes have been suspended to facilitate negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Talks were held yesterday (February 9) between Unite and the GMB union, and Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd, which runs the service on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), over a number of issues, including a bullying culture and health and safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strike was suspended on Wednesday (February 8) ahead of yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bEnough progress was made yesterday for the unions to suspend next Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 17) planned 24-hour strike,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Onay Kasab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will be meeting the management next Friday for further talks to resolve the outstanding issues,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be commenting further until these talks have concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHowever, we do reserve the right to take further industrial action, should a settlement not be reached.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further 24-hour stoppages are scheduled to start at just past midnight on February 24; March 3; March 10; March 17; March 24; March 31; April 7; and April 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The free service opened in 1889, following the abolition of tolls across bridges to the west of London, although a ferry has been in place at the site since the 14th century.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about why Woolwich ferry workers are striking in the video from the first day that they walked out in the dispute below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bJIzB-yfkKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress has been made in the Woolwich Ferry dispute talks and both today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Friday 10) and next Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 17) 24-hour strikes have been suspended to facilitate negotiations. &nbsp; Talks were held yesterday (February 9) between Unite and the GMB union, and Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd, which runs the service on behalf of Transport for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[309,132,274],"wps_subtitle":"Action paused after progress on talks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438"}],"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=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11439,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions\/11439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}