{"id":7469,"date":"2009-02-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/13\/indian-professionals-find-going-tough-in-recession-hit-uk\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T12:00:00","slug":"indian-professionals-find-going-tough-in-recession-hit-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/13\/indian-professionals-find-going-tough-in-recession-hit-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Professionals Find Going Tough In Recession-Hit UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/001200902120332.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, ENGLAND, February 2009: Indian professionals in Britain are uneasy over growing resentment among recession-hit British workers who have been protesting against offering employment to foreigners. A wave of strikes has hit several companies, including oil major Total, in Nottinghamshire and other places in Britain to protest employing foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p>The resentment is so far limited to employing workers from the European Union, but Indian professionals fear this may well assume racist overtones and affect them adversely.<\/p>\n<p>Protests and strikes by British workers have been opposed by leading figures in the Gordon Brown government, particularly Business secretary Peter Mandelson and Indian-origin Labour MP, Keith Vaz. Describing the strikes and protests as &#8220;dangerous&#8221;, Vaz said Britain could not close its doors in a globalized world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, ENGLAND, February 2009: Indian professionals in Britain are uneasy over growing resentment among recession-hit British workers who have,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}