{"id":246153,"date":"2004-11-24T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bec-union-strike-threat-for-the-bahamas"},"modified":"2004-11-24T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T16:35:03","slug":"bec-union-strike-threat-for-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bec-union-strike-threat-for-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"BEC Union Strike Threat For The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As BEC&#8217;s Bahamas Electrical Workers Union threatened a massive strike by Monday if union demands are not met by the end of the week, the Ministry of Helath&#8217;s Parliamentary Secretary, Ron Pinder, pleaded with the union yesterday to act responsibly and refrain from causing massive blackouts.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nWith the prospect of industrial action at BEC on the horizon government officials will also have to content with the possibility of a teachers strike as the relationship between government and administrators at many schools becomes increasingly tense. Last week BTU President Kingsley Black said a nation-wide strike by teachers was &#8220;very possible&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAnd while many fear the prospect of a blackout, the public has to contend with an ongoing island wide water shortage with many residents being cut off from water supplies for several hours.<br \/>\n<P><B><br \/>\nSource: Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many fear the prospect of a blackout, the public has to contend with an ongoing island wide water shortage with many residents being cut off from water supplies for several hours.<\/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-246153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246153","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=246153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}