{"id":78074,"date":"2026-06-05T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/78074\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:24:21","slug":"geneva-civil-servants-strike-against-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/78074\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva civil servants strike against budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 3 June 2026 06:47\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/620226052b566.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Geneva&#8217;s public sector has begun a three-day strike against the canton&#8217;s proposed budget cuts. <\/p>\n<p>Around 900 employees marched on Tuesday evening, chanting &#8220;money for public services&#8221;. Workers are angry at frozen salary increases, a halt to inflation-linked pay rises, and a new pension law that unions say could cut take-home pay by up to 12%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mobilisation has drawn staff from across cantonal services, including hospitals and schools, with further rallies planned today and a fresh march tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposed 2026 budget is still to be debated in the Grand Council, and will affect tens of thousands of state employees and their families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 3 June 2026 06:47 Geneva&#8217;s public sector has begun a three-day strike against the canton&#8217;s proposed budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":["post-78074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-anglophone-radio-station","tag-broadcast","tag-butcher","tag-english-radio","tag-europe","tag-expat","tag-fm","tag-geneva","tag-geneve","tag-internet-radio","tag-lausanne","tag-local-news-geneva","tag-local-radio","tag-media","tag-news","tag-radio-frontier","tag-ski-news","tag-ski-update","tag-snow-report","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-news","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-news","tag-whats-on","tag-world-radio-switzerland","tag-wrs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116696780826784642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}