{"id":36542,"date":"2023-04-30T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/04\/30\/rail-strikes-we-should-not-be-targeting-eurovision-says-transport-secretary\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:42:37","slug":"rail-strikes-we-should-not-be-targeting-eurovision-says-transport-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=36542","title":{"rendered":"Rail strikes: We should not be targeting Eurovision, says transport secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Transport Secretary Mark Harper has told the BBC&#8217;s Laura Kuenssberg that rail strike action during Eurovision was not showing solidarity with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Aslef union says train drivers will take industrial action on 12 May, as part of a long-running row over pay, when many fans will be travelling to Liverpool to watch the song contest .<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">After the RMT union rejected the latest pay offer from train operators, its members will strike on 13 May &#8211; the day of the live grand final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65440550?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Transport Secretary Mark Harper has told the BBC&#8217;s Laura Kuenssberg that rail strike action during Eurovision was not showing solidarity with Ukraine. The Aslef union says train drivers will &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}