{"id":8923,"date":"2012-05-02T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2012-05-02T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:26:23","slug":"dsa-alert-examiner-strike-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8923","title":{"rendered":"DSA Alert: Examiner Strike May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email alert from the DSA <font color=\"#800000\">advises people<\/font><font color=\"#800000\"><\/font> who have their tests booked May 10 to attend as normal.<\/p>\n<p>PCS &#8211; the union involved &#8211; is obviously still determined to show the public what a bunch of prats it really is, whilst remaining under the impression that people are still mentally stuck in the Dark Ages with it, and are actually impressed by the idea of a strike.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve said before, not all examiners are in the union, and not all those who are get involved in strike action anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re worried, rearrange your test.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#800000\">Why are the DSA on strike on May 10?<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t specifically the DSA who are striking. It is various government bodies who are refusing to accept the government\u2019s pension offer. Pensions are the latest tool in the armoury of those who prefer striking to working for a living.<\/p>\n<p>The union involved claims it wants the government to \u201ccome to the negotiating table\u201d. In plain English, this just means that they will not be happy until they get exactly what <strong>THEY<\/strong> want.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t just PCS either. The police are complaining about their pensions and are organising demonstrations. Unions involved cover the civil service, universities, schools, colleges, and the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>The government has already made improved offers as a result of last year\u2019s strikes, but as the union says, \u201cthese are not enough\u201d. They demand a \u201cfair settlement\u201d. As I say, this amounts to <strong>EVERYTHING<\/strong> they are demanding, and nothing less will do.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget that the tanker drivers are complaining about similar issues, which prompted the panic buying fiasco a few weeks ago. Pensions is the current hot topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email alert from the DSA advises people who have their tests booked May 10 to attend as normal. PCS &#8211; the union involved &#8211; is obviously still determined to show the public what a bunch of prats it really is, whilst remaining under the impression that people are still mentally stuck in the Dark [&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":[80,85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related","category-news"],"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\/8923","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=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}