{"id":509464,"date":"2022-07-28T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T03:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=509464"},"modified":"2022-07-28T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T03:50:44","slug":"britains-rail-services-slow-to-a-crawl-as-40000-workers-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/britains-rail-services-slow-to-a-crawl-as-40000-workers-go-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s rail services slow to a crawl as 40,000 workers go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s railway network ground to a crawl on Wednesday after 40,000 staff walked off the job in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Train companies said only about a fifth of services across the country were due to run.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour strike by cleaners, signallers, maintenance workers and station staff comes a month after the country&#8217;s most disruptive rail walkout in three decades brought trains to a halt across the U.K at the start of the summer holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute centres on pay, working conditions and job security as Britain&#8217;s railways struggle to adapt to travel and commuting habits changed \u2014 perhaps forever \u2014 by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s railway network ground to a crawl on Wednesday after 40,000 staff walked off the job in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions. Train companies said only about a fifth of services across the country were due to run. The 24-hour strike by cleaners, signallers, maintenance workers and station staff comes a month after the country&#8217;s most disruptive rail walkout in three decades brought trains to a halt across the U.K at the start of the summer holiday season. The dispute centres on pay, working conditions and job security as Britain&#8217;s railways struggle to adapt to travel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}