{"id":5790,"date":"2011-04-23T20:18:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2011-04-23T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:18:50","slug":"dsa-strikes-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5790","title":{"rendered":"DSA Strikes Averted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistworker.co.uk\/art.php?id=24561\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Socialist Worker Online is obviously disappointed<\/a> that there apparently won&#8217;t be any strikes over the DSA&#8217;s original plans to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5485\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">close its Cardiff offices<\/a>. So it has to resort to extreme smugness:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">DSA strike votes wins a retreat <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">A strike vote in the Driving Standards Agency has meant that management has backed off over a number of issues. Significantly, management has dropped its plans to close the department\u2019s Cardiff office. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve heard the last of this one just yet. The kind of people involved in this want to strike over something, and the DSA is going to have to cut back somewhere if it is keeping the Cardiff offices open, so it&#8217;s only a matter of time before something makes the union members&#160;spit&#160;their dummy out again.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, there&#8217;s no mention of Newcastle &#8211; and that was also involved in the original story.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">EDIT 20\/6\/2011: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"> Don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s over, cos it ain&#8217;t.&#160; <a title=\"Examiner Strikes 2011 Episode\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6191\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">The union is determined to get a strike<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000\"> if it kills it. <\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">EDIT 27\/6\/2011: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"> There will be celebrations on union committees across the UK tonight, as it looks like  <a title=\"Strikes Now Likely\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6285\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">the possibility of the strikes being called off has been successfully repelled<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000\">. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialist Worker Online is obviously disappointed that there apparently won&#8217;t be any strikes over the DSA&#8217;s original plans to close its Cardiff offices. So it has to resort to extreme smugness: DSA strike votes wins a retreat A strike vote in the Driving Standards Agency has meant that management has backed off over a number [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,81,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-driving-test-related","category-dsa-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\/5790","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=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}