{"id":17851,"date":"2019-04-17T16:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17851"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:51","slug":"sellafield-row-olive-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17851","title":{"rendered":"Sellafield row &#8216;olive branch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has offered an \u00e2\u20ac\u0098olive branch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to troubled outsourcer Mitie, to create an opportunity to resolve the scheduled industrial action at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week the workers were due to begin a 10 day strike, in a dispute over pay, scheduled to start on Friday 19 April, but Unite has now amended the dispute to begin on Wednesday 24 April until Monday, April 29, as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098gesture of goodwill in order to allow meaningful negotiations to take place\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dispute which concerns security guards, cleaners, catering, vending, laundry and environmental operatives is a result of\u00c2\u00a0 Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 180 members rejecting Mitie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pay offer, with workers receiving just \u00c2\u01418.45 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members voted by 98 per cent in favour of strike action on a 70 per cent turnout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A second 10 day strike beginning on Friday, May 4 concluding on Monday, May 13, remains scheduled to go ahead if there is no resolution to the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs a gesture of goodwill, Unite has offered Mitie an olive branch by delaying when strike action will begin,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Ryan Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf Mitie is serious about resolving this dispute then the company will use this opportunity to enter into meaningful negotiations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMitie must recognise that this is the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last chance to resolve the dispute before strikes, which will cause serious disruption across the Sellafield complex, begin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite members are no longer going to accept rates below the real living wage, when undertaking challenging roles on a maximum security site.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has offered an \u00e2\u20ac\u0098olive branch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to troubled outsourcer Mitie, to create an opportunity to resolve the scheduled industrial action at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria. &nbsp; This week the workers were due to begin a 10 day strike, in a dispute over pay, scheduled to start on Friday 19 April, but Unite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1069,275],"wps_subtitle":"Unite offers 'gesture of goodwill' in Sellafield pay dispute","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17851"}],"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=17851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25347,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17851\/revisions\/25347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}