{"id":14094,"date":"2017-12-06T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2017-12-06T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:14:19","slug":"bakery-dispute-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14094","title":{"rendered":"Bakery dispute settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Drivers at the Kingsmill bakery in West Bromwich, who deliver 1.5 million loaves each week, have overwhelmingly accepted a revised pay offer and have called off their threatened strike action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite, announced today (December 6) that about 130 drivers, maintenance staff and security personnel at the Birmingham Road site had agreed a new pay package.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite lead officer for the food sector Joe Clarke said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs part of the agreed deal with ABF Grain Products Ltd, the exact terms won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe pay rise, backdated to April 2017, is slightly over 2.5 per cent and with a two per cent increase for year two, starting in April 2018. This is coupled with a further markets rate payment adjustment being added to this figure of 0.5 per cent and a further 0.6 per cent payment for a 12 month voluntary arrangement for the working time derogation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis deal reflects a good outcome with an overall package which sees the desired improvements to rates of pay that we have been pushing for at Allied Bakeries Kingsmill West Bromwich.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe industrial action has now been called off after the workforce voted overwhelmingly to accept the revised offer and our members are working normally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI would like to thank our members for the solidarity that they have shown which has brought about this positive outcome and we look forward to a constructive relationship with the management going forward.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers at the Kingsmill bakery in West Bromwich, who deliver 1.5 million loaves each week, have overwhelmingly accepted a revised pay offer and have called off their threatened strike action. &nbsp; Unite, announced today (December 6) that about 130 drivers, maintenance staff and security personnel at the Birmingham Road site had agreed a new pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[758,489,437],"wps_subtitle":"Kingsmill workers call off strike action over pay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094"}],"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=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14096,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions\/14096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}