{"id":24330,"date":"2013-01-29T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/29\/286158\/strike\/"},"modified":"2013-01-29T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:55:43","slug":"uk-police-to-vote-for-right-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-police-to-vote-for-right-to-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police to vote for right to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>British police officers are to start balloting on January 31 over the right to take industrial action, which they have been banned from for almost a century.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Federation said it would need half of its members, about 65,000 officers, to secure mandate for change before the ballot closes on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>About 36,000 police officers across England and Wales have so far registered to vote, <em>The Guardian<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The vote follows a period of &#8220;unprecedented discontent and low morale&#8221; among police officers, the Police Federation chairman Steve Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe the figure agreed would provide us with that mandate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, has made clear that any question of the right to strike is &#8220;off the table&#8221;, and claimed the police will remain the best paid of the emergency service.<\/p>\n<p>More than 23,000 police officers in Britain earn a second income from none-police jobs as the country\u2019s ailing economy takes more in-work poverty victims.<\/p>\n<p>MOS\/MOL\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>British police officers are to start balloting on January 31 over the right to take industrial action, which they have been banned from for almost a century.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Federation said it would need half of its members, about 65,000 officers, to secure mandate for change before the ballot closes on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>About 36,000 police officers across England and Wales have so far registered to vote, <em>The Guardian<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The vote follows a period of &#8220;unprecedented discontent and low morale&#8221; among police officers, the Police Federation chairman Steve Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe the figure agreed would provide us with that mandate&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, has made clear that any question of the right to strike is &#8220;off the table&#8221;, and claimed the police will remain the best paid of the emergency service.<\/p>\n<p>More than 23,000 police officers in Britain earn a second income from none-police jobs as the country&rsquo;s ailing economy takes more in-work poverty victims.<\/p>\n<p>MOS\/MOL\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}