{"id":12298,"date":"2017-05-05T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:00:59","slug":"pay-hike-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=12298","title":{"rendered":"Pay hike win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A pay deal at Rolls Royce Rotherham ABCF guaranteeing a minimum of 17 per cent over three years has been signed today (Friday May 5) with Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said that the package which will benefit about 120 staff below the management is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098one of the largest deals that Rolls Royce (RR) has agreed in recent years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The union said that the deal was a recognition that the pay rates were among the lowest across the RR group and this had resulted in workers at the south Yorkshire site, which makes single crystal turbine blades, leaving for better jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhile small in number in terms of the workforce, it is one of the largest deals RR has agreed in recent years,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Doug Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt has come about because the company finally accepted what Unite had been saying for some time that paying the lowest rates in the group was contributing significantly to the high rate of attrition.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grade salary ranges and pay points increased on\u00c2\u00a0 March 1\u00c2\u00a02017 icrease by 2.8 per cent; on 1 March 2018 by 2.5 per cent; and on 1 March 2019 by 2.5 per cent. Followed by an increase on\u00c2\u00a0 March 1\u00c2\u00a0in subsequent years by the uncapped retail price index (RPI) with a minimum of 2.5 per cent based on the mean average of the November, December and January figures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fixed shift allowances will increase this year by \u00c2\u0141300 &#8211; \u00c2\u0141600 per year which equates to about eight per cent over the three year period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe regard this pay deal, following tough negotiations, as a success in these challenging economic times and it demonstrates the strong value of union membership,&#8221; added Doug Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat individuals will receive depends on whether they are \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shop floor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u0098professional\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, but we estimate that for most employees that it will be a minimum of 17 per cent over three years.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was in 2015 that Rolls-Royce marked the official opening of its new \u00c2\u0141110m Advanced Blade Casting Facility (ABCF) at Rotherham.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pay deal at Rolls Royce Rotherham ABCF guaranteeing a minimum of 17 per cent over three years has been signed today (Friday May 5) with Unite. &nbsp; Unite said that the package which will benefit about 120 staff below the management is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098one of the largest deals that Rolls Royce (RR) has agreed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[714,189],"wps_subtitle":"Unite hails Rolls Royce pay deal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298"}],"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=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12301,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions\/12301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}