{"id":12956,"date":"2023-07-20T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12956"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:24:06","slug":"strike-at-aunties-bristol-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12956","title":{"rendered":"Strike at Auntie&#8217;s Bristol base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking up Whiteladies Road this morning, your &#8216;umble scribe spotted a picket line outside <s>Broadcasting<\/s> Brainwashing House as local radio journalists down tools for the third time in recent months to protest about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuj.org.uk\/resource\/bbc-journalists-strike-for-the-third-time-to-save-local-radio.html\">cuts to jobs in the corporation&#8217;s local radio stations<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_12961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12961\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/07\/bbc_picket.jpg\" alt=\"NUJ picket line on White ladies Road BS8\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/07\/bbc_picket.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/07\/bbc_picket-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NUJ picket line on White ladies Road, BS8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>According to the <abbr title=\"National Union of Journalists\">NUJ<\/abbr>, &#8220;<em>Despite the dispute winning huge support among the 5.4m loyal local radio listeners, MPs and councillors of all parties, a huge range of charities, non-league football fans, and community groups, the BBC is going ahead with plans to cut local content by almost half, with many popular presenters losing their jobs or choosing to go<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Solidarity! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking up Whiteladies Road this morning, your &#8216;umble scribe spotted a picket line outside Broadcasting Brainwashing House as local radio journalists down tools for the third time in recent months to protest about cuts to jobs in the corporation&#8217;s local radio stations. According to the NUJ, &#8220;Despite the dispute winning huge support among the 5.4m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32,15],"tags":[40,36,33,20],"class_list":["post-12956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-media","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12966,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions\/12966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}