{"id":4600,"date":"2015-06-30T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:24:06","slug":"down-in-the-tube-station-at-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4600","title":{"rendered":"Down in the Tube station at midnight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>London Underground workers, members of Unite, the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest union, have voted strongly in favour of strike action in a dispute over the introduction of all-night Tube services from September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite, which represents about 250 electrical and maintenance technicians, linesmen and signallers, voted by 70 per cent for strike action and 84 per cent for industrial action short of a strike in the dispute which also includes other issues such as a decent pay rise, jobs and safety. The turnout was 82 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite and the other Tube trade unions are currently in talks with the conciliation service Acas to resolve the dispute before a planned 24-hour strike starting next Wednesday evening (July 8). More talks at Acas are due tomorrow (Wednesday July 1).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Hugh Roberts said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite members working on the Tube have voted robustly in favour of strike action and there is a strong impetus for London Underground management to reach an equitable settlement through talks at Acas.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Underground workers, members of Unite, the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest union, have voted strongly in favour of strike action in a dispute over the introduction of all-night Tube services from September. &nbsp; Unite, which represents about 250 electrical and maintenance technicians, linesmen and signallers, voted by 70 per cent for strike action and 84 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[332,88],"wps_subtitle":"Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tube workers vote for strike in all-night services row ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"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=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}