{"id":2875,"date":"2008-04-25T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T12:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/niagaras-tourism-workers-face-tough-road-ahead-report\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T08:21:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T12:21:27","slug":"niagaras-tourism-workers-face-tough-road-ahead-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/niagaras-tourism-workers-face-tough-road-ahead-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara&#8217;s tourism workers face tough road ahead: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1393\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Robert Hickey, the Niagara tourism sector faces some serious challenges with the decline in American visitors.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, the workers at the region&#8217;s many hotels face tough roads ahead with problems with low wages, increased seasonal positions and risks of being injured on the job. Hickey, a professor of policy studies at Queen&#8217;s University, said the key to improving conditions is through workers unions.<\/p>\n<p>Hickey was on hand April 19 at the McBain Community Centre to present a report outlining the challenges and opportunities for improving work conditions in Niagara&#8217;s hotel sector.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: According to Robert Hickey, the Niagara tourism sector faces some serious challenges with the decline in American visitors. In turn, the workers at the region&#8217;s many hotels face tough roads ahead with problems with low wages, increased seasonal positions and risks of being injured on the job. Hickey, a professor of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}