{"id":13771,"date":"2017-10-18T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=13771"},"modified":"2017-10-18T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:09:42","slug":"wake-up-call-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=13771","title":{"rendered":"Wake up call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite is urging Heathrow bosses to recognise the sizeable discontent that remains among security staff, engineers and firefighters at the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest airport over holiday pay and imposed cuts to terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (October 18) call came after Unite members across all three groups of workers backed industrial action. However, because of the Tory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-trade union laws, security guards, who voted 69.8 per cent in favour of strike action, will be unable, legally to take action to defend their terms and conditions because they narrowly missed out on the artificial 50 per cent turn-out threshold by two per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has said that the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reps will be meeting in the coming days to discuss the next steps, in the meantime Heathrow bosses should take this vote as a wake-up call and get back around the table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s result should be a massive wake-up call to Heathrow bosses,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Wayne King. &#8220;They need to recognise the sizeable discontent that exists among its staff and start negotiating with the union to repair the serious breakdown in industrial relations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is shameful that the Tory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-trade union laws are giving bad bosses licence to impose damaging cuts and changes to terms and conditions without union agreement,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members are highly skilled professionals, working in safety critical roles. They keep Heathrow safe, but feel badly let down by the high handed way they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been treated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite reps will be meeting in the coming days to discuss next steps, in the meantime we are urging Heathrow bosses to heed this warning and get back around the negotiating table to hammer out a deal on the outstanding issues.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite is urging Heathrow bosses to recognise the sizeable discontent that remains among security staff, engineers and firefighters at the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest airport over holiday pay and imposed cuts to terms and conditions. &nbsp; Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (October 18) call came after Unite members across all three groups of workers backed industrial action. However, because of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[125,195],"wps_subtitle":"Heathrow workers back industrial action","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771"}],"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=13771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13772,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13771\/revisions\/13772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}