{"id":15082,"date":"2018-04-26T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:47","slug":"ellesmere-port-investment-vauxhall-pay-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=15082","title":{"rendered":"Ellesmere Port investment call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite called on PSA to repay the commitment of car workers at Vauxhall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ellesmere Port plant with investment in new models at the plant after the workforce overwhelmingly backed a pay deal and a number of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098items for change\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just over three quarters (76 per cent) of Unite members backed the deal which will see workers receive a \u00c2\u0141750 lump sum and an additional 1.5 per cent pay rise in January 2019. The pay deal mirrors the one that was overwhelmingly backed by van workers at Vauxhall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Luton plant last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the pay deal car workers will see a 30 per cent reduction in banked hours, meaning it will take workers two-thirds of the time it currently does to pay back hours that are banked during plant shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Items for change include the introduction of PSA work standards and the introduction of an autonomous work concept which brings together maintenance engineers and production workers in to one team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vauxhall members at Ellesmere Port, like their colleagues at Luton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s van plant, have overwhelmingly backed the pay deal,&#8221; said Unite general secretary Len McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to thank our convenors and members for all the work they have done,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Our continued focus is to secure investment from PSA in new models at Ellesmere Port and guarantee the plant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long-term future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTime and again Ellesmere Port\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top class workforce has shown its commitment to the plant. PSA must now repay the workforce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commitment by moving forward with investment in new models at Ellesmere Port as a matter of urgency.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite called on PSA to repay the commitment of car workers at Vauxhall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ellesmere Port plant with investment in new models at the plant after the workforce overwhelmingly backed a pay deal and a number of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098items for change\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. &nbsp; Just over three quarters (76 per cent) of Unite members backed the deal which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[851,714,686],"wps_subtitle":"Vauxhall car workers back pay deal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082"}],"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=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26239,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions\/26239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}