{"id":16247,"date":"2018-09-20T10:56:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16247"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:13","slug":"crewe-cheque-company-dispute-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16247","title":{"rendered":"Cheque firm dispute ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite members at Communisis in Crewe have called off strike action after a new pay offer was accepted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workers, who produce cheques and cheque books, had initially voted for strike action, after rejecting an eight per cent pay increase spread over three years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strike action and an overtime ban which was originally scheduled for the end of August was postponed to allow further talks to progress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The talks resulted in the company making an improved pay offer, with the workers being offered and accepting a pay increase of three per cent for each of the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI am pleased that Communisis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 management were prepared to listen to members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 concerns and made an improved pay offer,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Darren Barton. &#8220;Their actions meant that strike action and any disruption to the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work was avoided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite hopes that these negotiations will bring in a new era of co-operation and that the relationship with the company can now be developed and strengthened.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Unite members at Communisis in Crewe have called off strike action after a new pay offer was accepted. &nbsp; The workers, who produce cheques and cheque books, had initially voted for strike action, after rejecting an eight per cent pay increase spread over three years. &nbsp; Strike action and an overtime ban which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1015,714,132],"wps_subtitle":"Strike action called off after revised pay offer agreed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247"}],"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=16247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25870,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions\/25870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}