{"id":12988,"date":"2017-08-10T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2017-08-10T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T11:33:29","slug":"plumbing-pay-deal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=12988","title":{"rendered":"Plumbing pay deal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Following lengthy negotiations with employer representatives from the plumbing industry, Unite, the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest construction union, has secured a three-year pay deal for plumbers employed under the Joint Industry Board (JIB) plumbing national agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers in England and Wales covered by the agreement will receive an overall 8.4 per cent increase on pay over the lifetime of the three-year pay deal. Workers will also receive two days additional holiday, increases in allowances which match increases in basic pay and a 20 per cent increase in sick pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members of Unite overwhelmingly endorsed the pay deal in a consultative ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite national officer for construction John Allott said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is an excellent deal for plumbers and is well above the average pay awards that workers are receiving across all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn addition to the increase in basic rates, workers will also receive a total of 32 days holiday a year and substantial increases in all allowances.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis multi-year pay deal provides certainty for both workers and employers going forward and should be used as a model for other agreements and negotiations. Crucially it maintains the integrity of the national agreement and it will greatly assist in increasing the recruitment and retention of highly skilled plumbers.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following lengthy negotiations with employer representatives from the plumbing industry, Unite, the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest construction union, has secured a three-year pay deal for plumbers employed under the Joint Industry Board (JIB) plumbing national agreement. &nbsp; Workers in England and Wales covered by the agreement will receive an overall 8.4 per cent increase on pay over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[167,714],"wps_subtitle":"Unite welcomes new agreement","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988"}],"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=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12990,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions\/12990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}