{"id":93922,"date":"2019-05-21T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/21\/westminster-support-staff-go-on-strike-over-missed-pay\/"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:26:24","slug":"westminster-support-staff-go-on-strike-over-missed-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=93922","title":{"rendered":"Westminster support staff go on strike over missed pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government department workers say they have been forced to rely on food banksOutsourced workers who clean civil servants\u2019 desks and toilets have begun a four-day strike after missed payments and low pay left them living in poverty and forced them to turn to food banks set up inside the business department.Baked beans, tins of tuna and potatoes from boxes set up on every floor of the department\u2019s headquarters at One Victoria Street, Westminster \u2013 including outside the office of the business secretary, Greg Clark \u2013 were circulated among cleaners and security guards in the offices every day last week. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/may\/21\/westminster-support-staff-strike-missed-pay-cheques\" target=\"_blank\">Westminster support staff go on strike over missed pay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government department workers say they have been forced to rely on food banksOutsourced workers who clean civil servants\u2019 desks and toilets have begun a four-day strike after missed payments and low pay left them living in poverty and forced them to turn to food banks set up inside the business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}