{"id":82795,"date":"2017-07-20T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bf8e23cff4ef844913fd89ce0cc35b63"},"modified":"2017-07-20T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T15:17:49","slug":"news-story-aslef-meeting-constructive-strikes-remain-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82795","title":{"rendered":"News story: ASLEF meeting constructive, strikes remain suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Planned strike action by <abbr title=\"Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen\">ASLEF<\/abbr> members on Southern Rail remains suspended after the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, held constructive talks with the union. The talks were aimed at re-starting the negotiations between the company and the union.<\/p>\n<p>The union called off strikes on Southern Rail on 1, 2 and 4 August 2017 and lifted a ban on overtime and rest day working to meet the Transport Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019re doing everything we can to resolve the situation on Southern and get passengers the high quality rail services that they deserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I was pleased to have a constructive meeting with <abbr title=\"Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen\">ASLEF<\/abbr> today and I hope it paves the way for the reopening of negotiations between the union and Southern so we can sort out this situation and get services back to normal for passengers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1019\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Rail media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3021\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Switchboard<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes remain suspended after Transport Secretary holds constructive talks with ASLEF union.<\/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\/82795"}],"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=82795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}