{"id":246166,"date":"2004-11-27T19:36:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T00:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bec-christmas-strike-off"},"modified":"2004-11-27T19:36:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T00:36:58","slug":"bec-christmas-strike-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bec-christmas-strike-off","title":{"rendered":"BEC Christmas Strike Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEC and union members have resolved certain issues which could have led to island-wide blackouts in the weeks leading up to and including the Christmas holdays.<\/p>\n<p>\nUnder the oversight of the Department of Labour, members of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU) and the management of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation met to discuss outstanding matters.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe specific issues that had been resolved were not made public. However, Minister of Labour and Immigration Vincent Peet said the &#8220;atmosphere has now changed&#8221; and there is no longer the danger of of industrial action during the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahamas Electrical Corporation (BEC) strike which threatened a nation-wide blackout at the peak holiday tourism season has been averted.<\/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-246166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246166","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=246166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}