{"id":10530,"date":"2016-11-10T16:53:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2016-11-10T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:53:48","slug":"we-should-not-have-to-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We should not have to wait&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been estimated that if we continue on the same path we have been, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take another 170 years before women finally achieve equal pay. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already waited nearly 50 years since the Equal Pay Act, which enshrined equal pay in law \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we should not have to wait any longer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best way women can achieve equal pay in their workplace is by joining a trade union. Unions can help negotiate fair pay and if all else fails, we can help women pursue equal pay claims in court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only through solidarity that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll achieve absolute workplace equality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 -Unite national officer for equalities Siobhan Endean<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been estimated that if we continue on the same path we have been, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take another 170 years before women finally achieve equal pay. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already waited nearly 50 years since the Equal Pay Act, which enshrined equal pay in law \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we should not have to wait any longer. &nbsp; &#8220;The best way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[379,209],"wps_subtitle":"Close the gender pay gap -- join a trade union","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530"}],"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=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10531,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/10531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}