{"id":115748,"date":"2017-09-03T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115748"},"modified":"2017-09-03T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T00:00:49","slug":"striking-swissport-worker-protests-block-traffic-at-pearson-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/03\/striking-swissport-worker-protests-block-traffic-at-pearson-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking Swissport worker protests block traffic at Pearson Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115749\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/34839252350_fc352c034e_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115749\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/34839252350_fc352c034e_k.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Toronto's Pearson Airport (Anthony Gonzalez Reyes\/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/34839252350_fc352c034e_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/34839252350_fc352c034e_k-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/34839252350_fc352c034e_k-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/34839252350_fc352c034e_k-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Toronto&#8217;s Pearson Airport (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anthonyagonzalez\/34839252350\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anthonyagonzalez\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Gonzalez Reyes\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014Police say union protesters who blocked traffic access to two of the busiest terminals at Toronto&#8217;s Pearson Airport on Sunday afternoon left peacefully in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Cst. Mark Fischer of Peel Region Police says there were no arrests, and police are not aware of any incidents during the protest.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 caused backups from Hwy. 409, which leads to the airport, all the way down to the intersection of Hwys. 401 and 427, according to Fischer.<\/p>\n<p>He says that during the protests, police had to urge people not to get out of their cars and walk toward the airport, which he says is \u201cvery unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pearson officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>About 700 employees of Swissport, whose ground crew workers service 30 of Pearson&#8217;s 74 airlines, have been on strike since July over wage and benefit disputes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Police say union protesters who blocked traffic access to two of the busiest terminals at Toronto&#8217;s Pearson Airport on Sunday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":115749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}