{"id":12318,"date":"2015-03-31T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2015-03-31T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:54:31","slug":"staff-are-threatening-to-go-on-strike-against-the-queen-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/staff-are-threatening-to-go-on-strike-against-the-queen-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Are Threatening To Go On Strike Against The Queen Of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/033115_1146_StaffAreThr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a conflict that may well make both parties yearn for the days of the guillotine, the Queen of England&#8217;s castle staff are threatening to strike writes Gordon Rayner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Castle staff say that they start out making salaries as low as \u00a314,400 per year \u2013 below living wage.<\/li>\n<li>Yet they have to perform unpaid duties such as guiding tour groups and working as interpreters.<\/li>\n<li>The castle attracts over a million visitors a year, generating revenues of \u00a317 million.<\/li>\n<li>Officials respond that the wages paid are above the market median, and that perks such as free lunches and pension contributions are given to employees.<\/li>\n<li>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2015\/03\/30\/royal_family_s_staff_at_windsor_castle_voting_on_possible_strike_over_extra.html\">Slate<\/a> Beth Ethier speculates that the timing of the action may have something to do with putting pressure on a Tory government, that is usually seen as pro-Monarchy, and which has just entered into a re-election campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article goes into more detail and explains the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Work-to-rule\">work to rule<\/a>&#8221; strike that staff are threatening, the distinction between the tourist facing staff, and the Royal Family&#8217;s personal staff, and it gives a glimpse of what it&#8217;s like to work in a castle, the history of the dispute and more. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/queen-elizabeth-II\/11503795\/Queens-staff-could-strike-for-the-first-time-as-Windsor-Castle-workers-vote-on-action-over-appalling-low-pay.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/queen-elizabeth-II\/11503795\/Queens-staff-could-strike-for-the-first-time-as-Windsor-Castle-workers-vote-on-action-over-appalling-low-pay.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2015\/03\/30\/royal_family_s_staff_at_windsor_castle_voting_on_possible_strike_over_extra.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a conflict that may well make both parties yearn for the days of the guillotine, the Queen of England&#8217;s castle staff are threatening to strike writes Gordon Rayner: Castle staff say that they start out making salaries as low as \u00a314,400 per year \u2013 below living wage. Yet they have to perform unpaid duties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/033115_1146_StaffAreThr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12323,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/12323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}