{"id":10705,"date":"2016-11-29T16:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10705"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:21:45","slug":"exceptional-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10705","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Exceptional&#8217; deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) have overwhelmingly backed an \u00e2\u20ac\u0098exceptional pay deal for an exceptional workforce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a consultative ballot, Unite announced today (November 29).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over three quarters (77 per cent) of those voting gave the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098thumbs up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to the two-year deal of 3.5 per cent, plus a \u00c2\u0141750 bonus in year one, with an inflation-proofed retail price index (RPI) plus 0.5 per cent rise in year two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which will be backdated to 1 November this year, affects workers at JLR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workplaces in Castle Bromwich, Coventry, Halewood, Solihull and Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis exceptional pay deal is no less than the workforce at JLR deserve and is recognition of their continued hard work which has made the carmaker such a world beater,&#8221; said Unite national officer Roger Maddison.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is testament to workforce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skills and dedication that JLR can look to the future with confidence and only right they share in the carmaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s continued success.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) have overwhelmingly backed an \u00e2\u20ac\u0098exceptional pay deal for an exceptional workforce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a consultative ballot, Unite announced today (November 29). &nbsp; Over three quarters (77 per cent) of those voting gave the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098thumbs up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to the two-year deal of 3.5 per cent, plus a \u00c2\u0141750 bonus in year one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[212,65],"wps_subtitle":"JLR workers give massive \u00e2\u20ac\u0098thumbs up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to pay offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705"}],"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=10705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10705\/revisions\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}