{"id":21706,"date":"2017-11-24T02:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21706"},"modified":"2017-11-24T02:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:05:47","slug":"examiner-strike-action-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21706","title":{"rendered":"Examiner &quot;Strike&quot; Action &#8211; December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"344\" title=\"Fossil fish\" align=\"left\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/344;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Fossil fish\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fossil.png\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">Various alerts from DVSA over the last week. These are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/driving-examiner-strike-december-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summarised here<\/a>. Not so much a &#8220;strike&#8221; but a &#8220;work to rule&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same advice as usual. Not all examiners are union members, and not all those who are will necessarily be involved. Turn up for your test as normal, get a free rearranged date if it doesn&#8217;t go ahead. They also include advice to consider changing your test now to avoid problems &#8211; which sounds more ominous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The action is scheduled to start 23 November 2017 and no end date is given.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From what DVSA has said, the action is primarily a continuation of that we experienced over a year ago, but with the added complication of the new driving test due to become active on 4 December. The union is apparently &#8220;trying to link the dispute with health and safety risks&#8221; associated with the new test.<\/p>\n<p>As I have written elsewhere, I have no issue with the <strong>additions<\/strong> to the new test <em>per se<\/em>. However, I have huge issues with the <strong>removal<\/strong> of the turn in the road and corner reverse manoeuvres. The new manoeuvres are so simple that my cat could do them, and they in no way represent a like-for-like replacement. But they are not dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, the PCS union is a fossil, and thank God that only a small number of examiners are thick enough to belong to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various alerts from DVSA over the last week. These are summarised here. Not so much a &#8220;strike&#8221; but a &#8220;work to rule&#8221;. It&#8217;s the same advice as usual. Not all examiners are union members, and not all those who are will necessarily be involved. Turn up for your test as normal, get a free rearranged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving-test-related","category-dvsa-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}