{"id":11080,"date":"2015-03-05T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/05\/baggage-handlers-picket\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T10:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:18:43","slug":"baggage-handlers-picket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/05\/baggage-handlers-picket\/","title":{"rendered":"Baggage Handlers Picket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Demonstration Held Over Unfair Labour Practices<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/baggage-handlers-picket-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><font><font size=\"3\">Baggage handlers have protested outside the British Airways terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport against what they deem unfair labour practices.<\/font><\/font><font><font size=\"3\"><font><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAmity Paye, spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union, says the workers set up a picket line at 6:00am on the day. She claims the one day-protest began with about 30 workers employed by Aviation Safeguards.<\/font><\/font><\/font><font><font size=\"3\"><font><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPaye stated the baggage handlers are fighting for the right to higher wages and benefits.<\/font><\/font><\/font><font><font size=\"3\"><font><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nCEO of the company, Craig Coy, says only a few workers were involved and that there were no baggage or flight disruptions. <\/font><\/font><\/font>&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstration Held Over Unfair Labour Practices Baggage handlers have protested outside the British Airways terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport against what they deem unfair labour practices. &#13; Amity Paye, spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union, says the workers set up a picket line at 6:00am on the day. She claims the one day-protest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}