{"id":244446,"date":"2003-11-20T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/atlantis-strike-threat"},"modified":"2003-11-20T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T20:01:22","slug":"atlantis-strike-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/atlantis-strike-threat","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Strike Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s walkout was only the tip of the iceberg for employees, said hotel union president Pat Bain.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to Mr. Bain, a combination of concerns and mounting frustration contributed to the walkout of more than100 employees of the world-class resort on Paradise island on Monday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Bain said that while the union regrets the action the employees took, those close to the situation cannot pretend to be surprised.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe union has already filed a trade dispute with the Ministry of Labour and he said, a strike vote is next on the agenda.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;While we are cognisant of the state of affairs of the Bahamian economy and the performance of our bread and butter industry in recent times, we are also very much concerned for the well-being of our members, who need a real increase in their earnings. And are not being unreasonable.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Cara Brennen, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If management does not come to the bargaining table and present Sun International employees with a satisfactory agreement, they will not hesitate to take strike action, it was claimed yesterday.<\/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-244446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244446","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=244446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}