{"id":13825,"date":"2017-10-31T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=13825"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:28:06","slug":"obsessed-with-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=13825","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Obsessed with austerity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The austerity-obsessed Jersey government won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be allowed to slash the wages of its workers, Unite said today (October 31).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The modernisation programme of States of Jersey Government, the island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest employer, envisages that its workforce, such as teaching assistants, gardeners, road sweepers and nurses, could be faced with a pay freeze for the next three years and following that a reduction in pay of up \u00c2\u01412,500 per year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional secretary for the south west (embracing the Channel Islands) Peter Hughes is flying to Jersey tomorrow (November 1) to put down a strong marker that Unite won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tolerate swingeing cuts to its 2,500 members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 incomes, when he meets senior shop stewards tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe States\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 government is obsessed with austerity, although this is not really an issue on prosperous Jersey, which is underpinned by international financial services and legal services,&#8221; Hughes said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe believe that Jersey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s government is using \u00e2\u20ac\u0098austerity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as a smokescreen to implement further cuts to its workforce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pay and terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is our members who provide the bedrock services that the public rely on, such as health and education,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is recommending that the members reject the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offer, which will also have detrimental effects to pensions and collective bargaining arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf the government persists in this flawed policy, we will be giving serious consideration to taking industrial action to defend our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 living standards.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The austerity-obsessed Jersey government won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be allowed to slash the wages of its workers, Unite said today (October 31). &nbsp; The modernisation programme of States of Jersey Government, the island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest employer, envisages that its workforce, such as teaching assistants, gardeners, road sweepers and nurses, could be faced with a pay freeze for the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76,828,437],"wps_subtitle":"Unite throws down gauntlet to Jersey gov't in pay row","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825"}],"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=13825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13826,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions\/13826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}