{"id":14978,"date":"2018-04-16T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14978"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:59:03","slug":"tgi-fridays-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14978","title":{"rendered":"TGI Fridays demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Dozens came out to protest TGI Fridays&#8217; unfair tipping practices and unpaid trial shifts in a demo organised by Unite on Friday (April 13) outside the restaurant chain&#8217;s Covent Garden branch in London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Unite activists came out in solidarity with the TGI Fridays workers who from this week will be balloted for strike action in what may be the first strike at a casual dining chain in decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14979\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-demo-2.jpg\" alt=\"tgi fridays demo 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-demo-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-demo-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The activists and members, including from local Unite Community branches and from Unite&#8217;s Hospitality branch,\u00c2\u00a0 held placards reading &#8216;Fair Pay&#8217; and &#8216;Stop the Wage Theft&#8217; (pictured above) as they sang chants and gave speeches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14980\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-demo-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"tgi fridays demo\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters &#8212; both young and old &#8212; came out in solidarity with TGI Fridays waiters, who face having 40 per cent of their card tips taken and redistributed to kitchen staff in lieu of a pay rise. The chain has also come under fire for failing to pay prospective workers for trial shifts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14985\" src=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-dave-turnbull-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"tgi fridays dave turnbull\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-dave-turnbull-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-dave-turnbull-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-dave-turnbull-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tgi-fridays-dave-turnbull.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Dave Turnbull (pictured above) praised Unite members for\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;bravely fighting back against a system that forces workers to live on low pay and without income security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bStanding up for your rights and challenging bad practice is hard when the threat of having your shifts cut or losing your job looms over you,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It takes courage to fight back, which is why these TGI Fridays\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 workers and the McStrikers deserve our respect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is urging TGI Fridays workers from across the UK to join the union. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not too late to have your say and demand better from your employer.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Pics by Mark Thomas<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens came out to protest TGI Fridays&#8217; unfair tipping practices and unpaid trial shifts in a demo organised by Unite on Friday (April 13) outside the restaurant chain&#8217;s Covent Garden branch in London. &nbsp; The Unite activists came out in solidarity with the TGI Fridays workers who from this week will be balloted for strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[888],"wps_subtitle":"Protesters denounce low pay and tips theft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26271,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978\/revisions\/26271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}