{"id":15864,"date":"2018-08-03T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=15864"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:19","slug":"waltham-forest-living-wage-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=15864","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No more excuses&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The campaign to make London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest social enterprise leisure services\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 provider Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) pay the London Living Wage (LLW) to those aged 18-to-20 is being taken to Waltham Forest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite is organising a protest when Waltham Forest council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabinet meets at the town hall, Forest Road, E17 4JF on Thursday, September 13, starting at 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GLL run seven leisure centres for Waltham Forest which is a LLW employer. However, GLL and the council have agreed that instead of the LLW -\u00c2\u00a0 currently \u00c2\u014110.20 an hour -\u00c2\u00a0 young people under 21 will only receive \u00c2\u01418.10 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that there are 260 young people working for GLL in Waltham Forest who could be affected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite is taking its campaign to north east London, after notching up a victory earlier in the summer when Tower Hamlets council brought forward an agreement with GLL to pay those aged 18-20 the LLW from next month (September), with pay backdated to April this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GLL runs nine council contracts in London, but there is a dispute between Unite and the company as to the payment of the LLW to those aged 18-20 at some individual authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Local councils are meant to insist that organisations with outsourcing contracts, such as GLL, should pay the voluntary LLW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere can be no more excuses,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Onay Kasab. &#8220;If it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good enough for young workers in Tower Hamlets, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good enough for workers in Waltham Forest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis should never have been allowed to happen \u00e2\u20ac\u201c elected councillors\u00c2\u00a0 need to keep a far closer check on the terms of contracts which are being awarded in their name,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut now is the time to put this right \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why we will be protesting when Waltham Forest council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabinet meets on September 13.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer for young members Mercedes Sanchez added,\u00e2\u20ac\u015bYoung workers deserve pay justice. Unite will continue to fight those employers who seek to deny fair pay for young workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe cannot allow a situation to continue where local authorities discriminate against young workers in this way.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign to make London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest social enterprise leisure services\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 provider Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) pay the London Living Wage (LLW) to those aged 18-to-20 is being taken to Waltham Forest. &nbsp; Unite is organising a protest when Waltham Forest council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabinet meets at the town hall, Forest Road, E17 4JF on Thursday, September 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[946,536],"wps_subtitle":"Waltham Forest protest over non-payment of London Living Wage to young people","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864"}],"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=15864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25998,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864\/revisions\/25998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}