{"id":2696,"date":"2015-01-13T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2015-01-13T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:12:26","slug":"picket-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"From the picket line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K5wSRbrCU6o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nA snapshot from one of the picket lines, which were in place across London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 70 bus garages as over 20,000 bus workers working for 18 bus operators took part in a 24-hour strike to end unfair pay disparities across the capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bus network today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Claiming solid support for the strike, Unite urged TfL and the mayor of London to \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bang the bus operators\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 heads together\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to get them to sit down collectively with the union to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite claims a refusal by the operators to address pay inequality has led to pay gaps of over \u00c2\u01413 an hour for new starters opening up, with pay varying from \u00c2\u01419.30 to \u00c2\u014112.34 an hour depending on the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A snapshot from one of the picket lines, which were in place across London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 70 bus garages as over 20,000 bus workers working for 18 bus operators took part in a 24-hour strike to end unfair pay disparities across the capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bus network today. &nbsp; Claiming solid support for the strike, Unite urged TfL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[176,211,202,132],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696"}],"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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}