{"id":16586,"date":"2018-10-26T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:55","slug":"strike-ballot-cammell-laird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16586","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Slap in the face&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite members at Cammell Laird will be balloted for industrial action over the bosses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 plans to slash the workforce by 40 per cent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c despite having work for the next decade on the order books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite the union will start balloting its more than 230 members at the Birkenhead shipyard on Monday (October 29) over whether they wish to strike and\/or take industrial action short of a strike over the job losses planned. The ballot closes on Friday, November 9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dispute centres on Cammell Laird\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to shed over 290 jobs by March 2019, despite the shipyard recently winning two contracts, worth a total of \u00c2\u0141619 million, to support and maintain ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite fears that the company wants to casualise the workforce that will see vital shipbuilding skills lost for a generation, as full-time jobs are replaced by agency labour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Ross Quinn said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe had a meeting with the management yesterday (October 25) and the outcome was that we are more convinced than ever that there is no reason to make compulsory redundancies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is why our members will begin to receive ballot papers on Monday asking them if they want to take industrial action, including the option of strikes, to defend their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe mid-to-long term future of this shipyard is bright, Managers have told us by the end of 2019 they will be in the strongest position since the yard re-opened in 2001, as they will have 10\u00e2\u20ac\u201c15 years of work on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe believe that the announcement of the Mersey ferry building contract is imminent. Should this be awarded to Cammell Laird, this would secure more jobs,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We understand that there are other contracts in the offing that could also boost the future employment prospects at Cammell Laird even further.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe believe that these planned job losses are unnecessary and a slap in the face for a dedicated workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe call on all those stakeholders involved to come together to bring work forward. We won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t accept our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs being sacrificed as the easy solution to a short term problem that has been magnified by management for its own cost-cutting ends.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite members at Cammell Laird will be balloted for industrial action over the bosses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 plans to slash the workforce by 40 per cent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c despite having work for the next decade on the order books. &nbsp; Unite the union will start balloting its more than 230 members at the Birkenhead shipyard on Monday (October 29) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1048,514],"wps_subtitle":"Strike ballot\u00c2\u00a0over job losses planned at Cammell Laird","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586"}],"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=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25758,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/25758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}