{"id":17574,"date":"2019-03-11T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17574"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:10","slug":"otis-life-engineers-strike-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17574","title":{"rendered":"Otis lift engineers strike off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>About 400 lift engineers, employed by Otis Ltd, have suspended six weeks of strike action as they vote on a revised pay offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite announced today (March 11) that the six weeks of strike action due to have started on Wednesday (March 13) had been suspended, while members vote on a new pay offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The offer follows a meeting between Unite and Otis management last Friday (March 8). Members are being balloted on the revised deal from today and the ballot closes on Friday, March 22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI can confirm that the industrial action due to have started on Wednesday has been suspended while our members hold a consultative ballot on the revised offer,&#8221; said Unite national officer for engineering Linda McCulloch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe details of the package will remain under wraps while our members consider the new offer hammered out with the company after talks on Friday,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be commenting further until the result of the ballot is known on March 22.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<br \/>\nThe engineers had voted by 71 per cent for strike action and 88 per cent for industrial action short of a strike over the previous pay offer of 1.5 per cent for the year starting June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 400 lift engineers, employed by Otis Ltd, have suspended six weeks of strike action as they vote on a revised pay offer. &nbsp; Unite announced today (March 11) that the six weeks of strike action due to have started on Wednesday (March 13) had been suspended, while members vote on a new pay offer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1124,132],"wps_subtitle":"Strike action by 400 lift engineers suspended as they vote on new pay offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574"}],"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=17574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25445,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574\/revisions\/25445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}