{"id":129282,"date":"2014-07-09T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=129282"},"modified":"2014-07-09T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:21:09","slug":"david-cameron-plans-outlaw-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/uk-news\/david-cameron-plans-outlaw-strike-action\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron plans to outlaw strike action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>David Cameron has announced\u00a0plans to outlaw\u00a0strike action in essential services. The announcement comes as\u00a0<span style=\"color: #282828;\">as<\/span><span style=\"color: #282828;\">\u00a0up to two million public sector workers prepare to take part in national strike action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-129283\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/strike-383x215.jpg\" alt=\"strike\" width=\"383\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/strike-383x215.jpg 383w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/strike-75x42.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/strike-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/strike.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-28231718\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC<\/a> those expected to take part in Thursday&#8217;s action include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #505050;\">\n<li><strong>Firefighters<\/strong>\u00a0who are involved in a\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-28129412\">row over pensions and retirement age<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Public and Commercial Services Union &#8211; which represents\u00a0<strong>civil servants, passport office workers<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>other public sector staff<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-28116521\">in a dispute over pay, cuts to jobs, pensions and the privatisation of services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-27980502\">Unison<\/a>\u00a0which represents, among others, workers in\u00a0<strong>local government, healthcare, colleges<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>schools\u00a0<\/strong>and the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-28060836\">GMB<\/a>representing, among others, workers who\u00a0<strong>serve school meals, clean streets, empty bins, carers\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0school support workers<\/strong>, in a row over this year&#8217;s pay offer<\/li>\n<li>Unite members &#8211; including<strong>\u00a0local government staff, council workers<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0teaching staff<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; who\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/news\/local-government-workers-to-strike-over-poverty-pay-on-10-july\/\">also dismissed the &#8220;insulting&#8221; pay offer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The National Union of Teachers which says\u00a0<strong>teachers\u00a0<\/strong>are\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-27923260\">&#8220;under attack&#8221; from the government on pay, pensions, workload pressure and conditions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Members of the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance, who work in a range of areas including\u00a0<strong>housing, youth justice and libraries<\/strong>,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nipsa.org.uk\/Where-I-Work\/NJC-NILGOSC\/NJC\/Pay-Circulars\/NJC-Pay-2014-Strike-10th-July-2014\">will strike over pay<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RMT members working for\u00a0<strong>Transport for London<\/strong>\u00a0will\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rmt.org.uk\/news\/transport-for-london-staff-join-july-10th-strike-action\/\">strike over pay and pensions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking to the media today, Cameron said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think these\u00a0strikes\u00a0are right&#8230; I think people should turn up for work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the time has come for looking at setting thresholds in strike ballots&#8230; The [NUT] strike ballot took place in 2012, based on a 27 per cent turnout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can it possibly be right for our children\u2019s education to be disrupted by trade unions acting in that way? It is time to legislate and it will be in the Conservative manifesto.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF<\/a>, a primary school teacher who wishes to remain anonymous, said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cameron complains that by teachers going on strike disrupts education, however his government have done more to damage our profession and children&#8217;s learning any government I&#8217;ve ever known of.<\/p>\n<p>If he is to change the strike laws regarding the tun-out, I hope he also\u00a0applies this to\u00a0his own political elections be it European or General elections etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/david-cameron-announces-crackdown-on-strike-action-in-the-public-sector-9595002.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a> Labour accused the Prime Minister of inflaming the situation, rather than trying to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>A party spokesman said: &#8220;We think\u00a0strikes\u00a0are a sign of failure. We don\u2019t want these\u00a0strikes\u00a0to go ahead, but the Government should be getting round the table, not ramping up the rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a frame, which the Conservatives want to use, of blaming low-paid workers and blaming teachers for these\u00a0strikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that the low-paid workers have had \u00a3250 promised to them then taken away by George Osborne and teachers have been abused and denigrated by Michael Gove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to resolve these\u00a0strikes\u00a0is to stop ramping up the rhetoric and sort things out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF Alternative News David Cameron has announced\u00a0plans to outlaw\u00a0strike action in essential services. The announcement comes as\u00a0as\u00a0up to two million public sector workers prepare to take part in national strike action.\u00a0 According the BBC those expected to take part in Thursday&#8217;s action include: Firefighters\u00a0who are involved in a\u00a0row over pensions and retirement age The Public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":129283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1622,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}