{"id":1525,"date":"2014-09-21T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2014-09-22T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T08:54:22","slug":"min-wage-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Min wage pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Labour Party conference opened today (September 21) with a pledge from leader Ed Miliband \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to raise the National Minimum Wage (NMW) to \u00c2\u01418 an hour by the end of the next Parliament.<br \/>\nHe will tell the conference in Manchester that his <em>Plan for Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Future<\/em> will rebuild the link between \u00e2\u20ac\u015bworking hard and sharing in our national wealth.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 The planned increase would take the NMW from \u00c2\u01416.50 in October this year to \u00c2\u01418 by 2020 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a rise of \u00c2\u01411.50 an hour for Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lowest paid workers worth \u00c2\u014160 a week or \u00c2\u01413,000 a year.<br \/>\nUnite has been pressing for an immediate uprate in the NMW of \u00c2\u01411.50 per hour as a way to combat poverty and reduce the benefits bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for the conference itself, Unite delegates are hoping to speak in many of the debates \u00e2\u20ac\u201c bringing the fight for inequality in Britain to the attention of Labour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This theme is also central to the fringe discussions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c especially today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (September 21) Unite and the Daily Mirror <em>Real Britain<\/em> fringe, <em>Putting people back into politics<\/em>, where Unite called for Labour to take on board the fight against austerity and inequality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Party conference opened today (September 21) with a pledge from leader Ed Miliband \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to raise the National Minimum Wage (NMW) to \u00c2\u01418 an hour by the end of the next Parliament. He will tell the conference in Manchester that his Plan for Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Future will rebuild the link between \u00e2\u20ac\u015bworking hard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[107],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"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=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}