{"id":242274,"date":"2003-06-12T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/06\/mitchell-says-plp-not-anti-labour"},"modified":"2003-06-12T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2003-06-12T16:19:08","slug":"mitchell-says-plp-not-anti-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/06\/mitchell-says-plp-not-anti-labour","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Says PLP Not Anti-Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister, Fred Mitchell, denied Wednesday that the PLP government is anti-labour, as he pleaded with government workers to hold to the &#8220;reasonable  postponement&#8221; to December of increased payments due them.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Mitchell, who is also responsible for the public service, made an all encompassing contribution on the 2003\/2004 budget debate in the House of Assembly.<P><br \/>\nSaid Mr. Mitchell: &#8221; The PLP is not anti-worker and it&#8217;s not anti-union. The PLP is worker friendly and pro-union, but the Progressive Liberal Party also makes up th government of the Bahamas.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nQuite apart from what our philosophical views are, we are the government of the Bahamas and that means we must be responsible for the greater good.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister pleads with workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}