{"id":243789,"date":"2003-07-25T11:38:54","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/07\/bec-staff-stage-demonstration"},"modified":"2003-07-25T11:38:54","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T15:38:54","slug":"bec-staff-stage-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/07\/bec-staff-stage-demonstration","title":{"rendered":"BEC Staff Stage Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstration is the first industrial action taken by the union since it threatened to &#8220;take the most aggressive&#8221; approach necessary to get Mr. Moore back on the job.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nPolice were called in to supervise the workers but the demonstration remained peaceful.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr.  Moore is the president of the Bahamas Electrical Utilities Managerial Union. He has been a BEC employee for the past 23years. Both unions, representing managerial staff and workers, are pushing for his reinstatement after his services were terminated by the corporation in a July 18th letter, in which it was stated that he was disruptive.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe termination was subsequently rescinded but Mr. Moore remains on unpaid leave while management reviews the issue.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 BEC employees demonstrated in front of BEC headquarters yesterday when management failed to meet the union&#8217;s Wednesday afternoon deadline to reinstate union president Timothy Moore.<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243789","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=243789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}