{"id":12520,"date":"2017-06-05T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2017-06-05T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T09:20:06","slug":"chicken-factory-closure-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=12520","title":{"rendered":"Chicken factory closure confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The 2 Sisters Food Group has confirmed that the Smethwick plant in the West Midlands will close on June 23 this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The poultry processing plant employs 630 workers and 530 of them are Unite members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThrough intensive negotiations we have managed to save about 250 jobs which will be taken up by other 2 Sisters&#8217; sites in the West Midlands,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Julia Long, Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national officer for the food industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnfortunately, this still means that some 300 workers face redundancy,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2 Sisters Food Group said that the factory at Bevan Way, Alpha Business Park is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098ageing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 which is the reason behind the closure. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bHowever, given the company&#8217;s business case that\u00c2\u00a0this site was ageing and needed drastic modernisation to conform environmentally, we believe that this was the only achievable outcome,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Julia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The factory, which opened in 1996 processes more than 1,000 tonnes of chicken each week and supplies chicken portions and whole birds to retailers and other 2 Sisters sites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite always has the welfare of its members as the top priority and we are continuing to support them in the days and weeks ahead,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Julia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 Sisters Food Group has confirmed that the Smethwick plant in the West Midlands will close on June 23 this year. &nbsp; The poultry processing plant employs 630 workers and 530 of them are Unite members. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThrough intensive negotiations we have managed to save about 250 jobs which will be taken up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520"}],"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=12520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12522,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions\/12522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}