{"id":676,"date":"2014-01-17T04:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=676"},"modified":"2014-01-17T04:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:58:56","slug":"toronto-hydro-workers-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favour-of-strike-as-talks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/17\/toronto-hydro-workers-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favour-of-strike-as-talks-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Hydro workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of strike as talks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Toronto Hydro workers voted more than 99 per cent in favour of a strike mandate on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The utility\u2019s contract with CUPE Local One expires on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The workers could strike in February.<\/p>\n<p>However, a hydro spokesperson says this isn\u2019t something they\u2019re alarmed about and is just a natural part of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>A blackout has been placed on the contract talks.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits are believed to the main point of contention in the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Hydro serves about 709,000 customers, including more than 629,000 residential clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Toronto Hydro workers voted more than 99 per cent in favour of a strike mandate on Thursday night. The utility\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}