{"id":132934,"date":"2014-07-24T02:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T02:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=132934"},"modified":"2014-07-24T02:24:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T02:24:38","slug":"boris-johnson-slammed-firefighter-lock-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/boris-johnson-slammed-firefighter-lock-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson Slammed For Firefighter Lock-Out Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: #9b1f26;\">Labour, Greens and Lib Dems join in call for London&#8217;s Tory mayor to abandon his &#8216;deliberately antagonistic approach&#8217;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The London Assembly slammed anti-union mayor Boris Johnson yesterday for threatening to \u201clock out\u201d striking firefighters, branding his plan a threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Tory London mayor \u2013 who has overseen scores of fire station closures \u2013 asked his fire commissioner to investigate \u201cwithholding payment from firefighters for part or the whole period of duty on which they are on strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A motion passed at a meeting of the assembly, with support from Labour, Green and Liberal Democrat members, urged the mayor to row back on his \u201cdeliberately antagonistic approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It warned that \u201cthe safety of Londoners will be jeopardised\u201d in the event of a lock-out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Labour\u2019s Fiona Twycross, who tabled the motion, said: \u201cThis a narrow-minded, politically motivated decision from the mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat is worse, locking firefighters out like this will pose a genuine risk to the safety of Londoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour, Greens and Lib Dems join in call for London&#8217;s Tory mayor to abandon his &#8216;deliberately antagonistic approach&#8217; The London Assembly slammed anti-union mayor Boris Johnson yesterday for threatening to \u201clock out\u201d striking firefighters, branding his plan a threat to public safety. The Tory London mayor \u2013 who has overseen scores of fire station closures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-132934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132934","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}