{"id":695078,"date":"2022-12-06T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=695078"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T09:54:58","slug":"train-strike-to-happen-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/train-strike-to-happen-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Strike to Happen on Christmas Eve!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If anyone has plans to go somewhere on Christmas Eve, make sure to check in advance. RMT has announced that they will be doing a train strike from the 24th of December till the 27th of December.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workers of the biggest rail union, known as RMT, will walk out from 6 pm on the 24th of December until the 27th of December as the row over pay and conditions escalates.<\/p>\n<p>This new train strike could affect many people traveling during Christmas time, including restaurants and bars.<\/p>\n<p>The union has advised workers to not take the new rail pay offer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Playing fast and loose with people&#8217;s Christmas plans and the new strike dates announced deliberately target vital engineering work designed to improve the railway&#8221;. said Tim Shoveller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_695079\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-695079\" class=\"wp-image-695079 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_2169482713-1.jpg\" alt=\"Train Strikes to take Place\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_2169482713-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_2169482713-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_2169482713-1-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-695079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a class=\"mui-19sk0fy-a-underline-inherit-linkContainer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Dave+Colman\">Dave Colman<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This strike will affect a lot of people during Christmas time, this will take a lot of time to sort out and people will complain.<\/p>\n<p>For more UK News, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/category\/uk-news\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For everything Five Minutes Spare, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For the Five Minutes Spare YouTube, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4AiJQSc8lzf_b9VCWjSXLA\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"mui-19sk0fy-a-underline-inherit-linkContainer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Dave+Colman\">Dave Colman<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone has plans to go somewhere on Christmas Eve, make sure to check in advance. RMT has announced that they will be doing a train strike from the 24th of December till the 27th of December. Workers of the biggest rail union, known as RMT, will walk out from 6 pm on the 24th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":695079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695080,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695078\/revisions\/695080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}