{"id":14728,"date":"2014-06-12T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14728"},"modified":"2014-06-12T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T10:06:04","slug":"airport-workers-in-rio-de-janeiro-declare-24-hour-strike-on-eve-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/12\/airport-workers-in-rio-de-janeiro-declare-24-hour-strike-on-eve-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport workers in Rio de Janeiro declare 24 hour strike on eve of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>S\u00e3o Paulo Subway Workers Refuse To Stop The Strike Causing Chaos Before The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WorldCup&amp;src=hash\">#WorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wYCLCkCqjU\">http:\/\/t.co\/wYCLCkCqjU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/JdBrOduyKa\">pic.twitter.com\/JdBrOduyKa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Occupy Chicago (@OccupyChicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OccupyChicago\/statuses\/476096775905083393\">June 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil\u2014Workers at Rio de Janeiro\u2019s two airports have declared a 24-hour strike to begin at midnight Wednesday, on the eve of the opening match of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Rio\u2019s Galeao international airport is expected to be one of the country\u2019s busiest during the monthlong soccer tournament. The walkout also will affect Santos Dumon airport, which provides domestic service, including flights to Sao Paulo, where the first World Cup game will be held Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Unions representing workers at the two airports including check-in counter clerks and baggage handlers are seeking raises of at least 5.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>A labour court has issued an injunction ordering the unions to maintain staffing at 80 per cent of normal levels or face fines of up to $22,400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo Subway Workers Refuse To Stop The Strike Causing Chaos Before The #WorldCup http:\/\/t.co\/wYCLCkCqjU pic.twitter.com\/JdBrOduyKa \u2014 Occupy Chicago (@OccupyChicago) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}