{"id":13413,"date":"2017-09-14T14:38:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2017-09-15T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:42:20","slug":"practice-what-you-preach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=13413","title":{"rendered":"‘Practice what you preach’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christmas deliveries to 650 Co-op stores in London and the south east could be hit, if a dispute over the sacking of two disabled workers at its Thurrock distribution centre escalates, Unite has warned.<\/p>\n

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Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 345 drivers at Thurrock are currently voting as to whether they wish to go to a full-scale industrial action ballot in defence of two sacked colleagues and a third facing a similar fate. The consultative ballot closes on Thursday (September 12).<\/p>\n

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Unite said that the two members were sacked for being disabled by Co-op bosses<\/a> in Thurrock and had now lost their appeals against dismissal.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members are furious at the treatment meted out to these two colleagues by a hard-hearted management,” said Unite regional officer Paul Travers.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe Co-op makes much song-and-dance about being an ethical employer, but here we have two workers with disabilities, who have worked for many years in the same role, being sacked.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf Unite doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t achieve an acceptable resolution to this dispute, members will be balloted for industrial action, including strike action.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis would create huge delivery problems for more than 650 stores in London, Essex, Kent and East Sussex in the run-up to Christmas and would result in the subsequent loss of business during that critical seasonal trading period,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAll we want is for these members and future similar situations to be treated in a caring and respectful fashion.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have offered to go to the conciliation service Acas, but the company has refused.\u00c2\u00a0 We can only assume the Co-op is not confident that the unfair dismissal of these members because they are disabled will stand up to the forensic scrutiny of neutral organisations.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is about time the bosses practiced what they preached in terms of ethical and corporate responsibility and governance, and sat down and resolved this issue.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Should, as expected, the consultative ballot be in favour of an industrial action ballot, voting papers are expected to drop onto members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 doormats by the beginning of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas deliveries to 650 Co-op stores in London and the south east could be hit, if a dispute over the sacking of two disabled workers at its Thurrock distribution centre escalates, Unite has warned.   Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 345 drivers at Thurrock are currently voting as to whether they wish to go to a full-scale industrial action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[271,172,132],"wps_subtitle":"Co-op \u00e2\u20ac\u0098disability sacking\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 row escalates","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413"}],"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=13413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13415,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions\/13415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}