{"id":16935,"date":"2019-01-08T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16935"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:49","slug":"strike-meadow-foods-chocolate-crumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16935","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shoddy&#8217; pay offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four days of strike action, from Saturday (January 12), are on the cards at an East Yorkshire chocolate crumb manufacturer over a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shoddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workers at Meadow Foods at Holme on Spalding Moor are due to walk-out at\u00c2\u00a06pm\u00c2\u00a0on January 12, after voting for strike action over a two per cent pay offer for the year starting July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The action, which ends at\u00c2\u00a06pm\u00c2\u00a0on Tuesday, January 15 is planned to hit night and day shifts over the four days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite, which represents more than half of 71 employees, said that there was still time for the management to come to the table for constructive talks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members have overwhelmingly rejected a shoddy two per cent pay offer and are seeking an increase in line with the retail price index, currently running at 3.2 per cent, to keep up with the soaring cost of living,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Dave Monaghan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis modest demand is in sharp and glaring contrast with the excessive 82 per cent increase that the company directors pocketed as highlighted in the latest accounts,&#8221; he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no wonder that our members are furious at the huge \u00e2\u20ac\u0098them and us\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 disparity between the pay of the bosses compared with those that actually generate the profits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is still a generous widow of opportunity for the management to sit down and enter into meaningful negotiations before the strike is due to commence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis site produces ingredients for other manufacturers and, if the strike goes ahead, we predict it will have a negative impact on the factory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to keep up with customer demand.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite members voted by 73 per cent for strike action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Four days of strike action, from Saturday (January 12), are on the cards at an East Yorkshire chocolate crumb manufacturer over a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shoddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer. &nbsp; The workers at Meadow Foods at Holme on Spalding Moor are due to walk-out at\u00c2\u00a06pm\u00c2\u00a0on January 12, after voting for strike action over a two per cent pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[758,88],"wps_subtitle":"Strike planned at East Yorkshire chocolate crumb plant ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16935"}],"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=16935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25645,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16935\/revisions\/25645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}