{"id":16924,"date":"2014-06-26T05:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16924"},"modified":"2014-06-26T01:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:31:31","slug":"talks-to-resume-on-thursday-in-durham-regions-inside-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/26\/talks-to-resume-on-thursday-in-durham-regions-inside-workers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks to resume on Thursday in Durham Region&#8217;s inside workers strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13730\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13730\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strike.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strike.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strike-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OSHAWA, Ontario &#8212; Contract talks are to resume Thursday between Durham Region and the union representing its striking inside workers.<\/p>\n<p>Workers voted Saturday by a 52 per cent margin to reject the municipality&#8217;s latest offer and continue their strike.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,600 Canadian Union of Public Employees members walked off the job last week, citing Durham&#8217;s demands for concessions over the sick leave benefits of emergency medical services workers.<\/p>\n<p>The workers on strike include those providing child care, income support, court services, public health inspections and traffic operations.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics are required to keep working during the strike because they&#8217;ve been deemed an essential service.<\/p>\n<p>There are closures or reduced service at the region&#8217;s day cares, provincial court office, Ontario Works program and environmental health offices but other services, such as curbside waste collection, are continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The workers last contract expired March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSHAWA, Ontario &#8212; Contract talks are to resume Thursday between Durham Region and the union representing its striking inside workers. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[5971,870],"class_list":["post-16924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-durham","tag-strike","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924","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=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}