{"id":14184,"date":"2017-12-15T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14184"},"modified":"2017-12-15T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:52:03","slug":"pay-deal-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14184","title":{"rendered":"Pay deal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Rolls-Royce workers at Goodwood, West Sussex have overwhelmingly voted to accept a two-year pay deal that will mean an extra seven per cent in their pay packets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite, which represents the 500-strong workforce that produce the iconic car, hailed the agreement as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098very well-deserved for a group of dedicated employees at the top of their game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workers voted by a large majority of 90 per cent to accept a 3.5 per cent increase on basic salary from January 1 2018, plus an additional day of personal holiday entitlement per year which, the union calculates, is worth a further 0.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In year two, from January 1 2019, there will be a three per cent pay increase made up of 2.75 per cent, plus a one-off payment of 0.25 per cent payable in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Fred Hanna said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe iconic Rolls-Royce cars are hand built at Goodwood and the two-year pay deal is a tribute to a dedicated group of workers at the top of the their game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe workforce voted by 90 per cent for this deal which provides them with a high degree of pay security over the next two years in what are very challenging economic times.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce is part of the BMW group and this agreement just covers the Goodwood site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce workers at Goodwood, West Sussex have overwhelmingly voted to accept a two-year pay deal that will mean an extra seven per cent in their pay packets. &nbsp; Unite, which represents the 500-strong workforce that produce the iconic car, hailed the agreement as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098very well-deserved for a group of dedicated employees at the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Rolls-Royce car workers accept two-year pay deal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184"}],"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=14184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14185,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions\/14185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}