{"id":553703,"date":"2023-02-07T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=553703"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:48:42","slug":"londons-power-grid-at-risk-after-unions-strike-threat-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/londons-power-grid-at-risk-after-unions-strike-threat-report\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s power grid at risk after union\u2019s strike threat: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A power network company covering London and the southeast of England could be hit by strikes next month after a trade union said it would ballot workers in a dispute over pay.<\/p>\n<p>Unite said Monday that 1,300 staff at UK Power Networks Holdings Ltd. were unhappy with a raise of 7% for the current financial year, followed by an average of two inflation measures for 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese workers literally keep the lights on and get them back on when there is a power cut,\u201d said Unite\u2019s regional officer Jane Jeffery, arguing that any disruption would be the fault of the company for not providing a higher offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A power network company covering London and the southeast of England could be hit by strikes next month after a trade union said it would ballot workers in a dispute over pay. Unite said Monday that 1,300 staff at UK Power Networks Holdings Ltd. were unhappy with a raise of 7% for the current financial year, followed by an average of two inflation measures for 2023-24. \u201cThese workers literally keep the lights on and get them back on when there is a power cut,\u201d said Unite\u2019s regional officer Jane Jeffery, arguing that any disruption would be the fault of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553703","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}