{"id":48706,"date":"2014-10-14T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=db629d9f1cda81cd602f1d217f126a94"},"modified":"2014-10-14T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:03:19","slug":"news-story-pcs-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48706","title":{"rendered":"News story: PCS strike action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has called a one-day strike on Wednesday 15 October as part of an ongoing dispute over a range of issues in the public sector including pay, pensions and terms and conditions. <\/p>\n<p>This is part of a week of coordinated industrial action across the public sector involving a number of other trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>A number of DBS staff who are PCS members have decided to take industrial action, however, we remain open for business and continue to focus our efforts on delivering our services. <\/p>\n<p>Our call centre and help desk remain open to deal with customer enquiries, we are continuing to process applications already in the system, consider referrals and make barring decisions.<\/p>\n<p>We will make every effort to reduce the effect of the strike on our services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike action planned for Wednesday 15 October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}