{"id":10420,"date":"2016-11-02T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:17:16","slug":"strike-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10420","title":{"rendered":"Strike for justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Strike action could be on the cards at a major cereal manufacturer in Wiltshire after a manufacturing operative was sacked unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Justin Beckett, a Unite rep at Cereal Partners in Trowbridge has an \u00e2\u20ac\u0098unblemished\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 18-year work record.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said that there was \u00e2\u20ac\u0098an internal stitch up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 during the disciplinary process, which followed an alleged minor verbal altercation between Mr Beckett and a company manager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will not stand by and allow our rep Justin Beckett, who has a 18-year unblemished work record with this company, to lose his job in a manner that smacks of an internal stitch-up, following a minor verbal exchange with a colleague,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Tony Hulbert, Unite regional officer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite is calling for the immediate reinstatement of Mr Beckett, who has been a rep of 10 years standing at the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Staverton site, which makes the breakfast cereal brands Shredded Wheat and Shreddies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has a mandate for strike both action and\/or industrial action short of a strike from the workforce in its campaign for Justin Beckett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reinstatement, following his dismissal on September 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Tony Hulbert is due to meet management on Friday (November 4) to reinforce the reinstatement call \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or industrial action is on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI will be making Justin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case very strongly on Friday for his immediate reinstatement, otherwise Unite members at the site will be taking industrial action, including strikes, in support of Justin \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how strongly they feel about the unfair treatment that has been meted out to their long-standing colleague,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Hulbert.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHopefully, common sense will prevail on Friday and Justin will be reinstated,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has nearly 100 members at the site which has a workforce of about 170.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike action could be on the cards at a major cereal manufacturer in Wiltshire after a manufacturing operative was sacked unfairly. &nbsp; Justin Beckett, a Unite rep at Cereal Partners in Trowbridge has an \u00e2\u20ac\u0098unblemished\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 18-year work record. &nbsp; Unite said that there was \u00e2\u20ac\u0098an internal stitch up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 during the disciplinary process, which followed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[88],"wps_subtitle":"Cereal firm workers could strike over sacked rep","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}