{"id":17887,"date":"2019-04-24T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17887"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:50","slug":"macclesfield-hospital-pay-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17887","title":{"rendered":"Macclesfield hospital pay protest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Low paid staff, contracted by outsourcing firm ISS, at Macclesfield District General Hospital are staging a second protest on Friday (April 26) against ISS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 plans to withhold up to a week of their pay after the company decided to upgrade its payroll system.<\/p>\n

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ISS employs hospital cleaners, porters and domestic staff at Macclesfield hospital, many of whom are paid hourly and earn the minimum wage.<\/p>\n

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The protest will take place on Friday from 12pm\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a02.30pm outside the rear entrance to Macclesfield District General Hospital (SK10 3BL).<\/p>\n

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The staff, mainly women, are angry that they will have to wait nearly three weeks after their last pay date to receive only two weeks wages. A week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pay will be withheld and paid to workers when they eventually leave the company \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so in reality they are losing a week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pay.<\/p>\n

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Unite regional officer Derek Jones said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis group of low paid workers already staged a successful protest last week \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and they will be demonstrating again on Friday as they ratchet up their campaign for pay justice.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe hope members of the public will join us on Friday at the rear entrance of Macclesfield hospital from 12.00pm to 2.30pm to support these low paid workers in their fight to win back their pay,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMany are lone parents and live pay packet to pay packet. The pay changes will push our members further into financial difficulties, leaving them struggling to pay the bills, mortgage or rent and put food on the tables for their families.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAt the end of December 2018, parent company ISS Mediclean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual turnover was \u00c2\u0141413m and gross profit was \u00c2\u014161m. Cash-rich ISS is behaving disgracefully.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe amount of interest being earned by ISS on these held back wages must be phenomenal and shows the greed of the company when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already making significant profits on the backs of its mainly female workforce.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unite renewed its call on ISS bosses to reconsider its proposals and find a solution that does not leave its members financially worse off, or in a position where any bridging loan would require extortionate repayments.<\/p>\n

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Low-paid Unite members at Royal Liverpool Hospital, employed by ISS, are also embroiled in a similar dispute over the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s payroll systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Low paid staff, contracted by outsourcing firm ISS, at Macclesfield District General Hospital are staging a second protest on Friday (April 26) against ISS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 plans to withhold up to a week of their pay after the company decided to upgrade its payroll system.   ISS employs hospital cleaners, porters and domestic staff at Macclesfield hospital, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[767,1160,29,135],"wps_subtitle":"Low paid ISS workers at Macclesfield hospital to stage second demo over unpaid wages","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887"}],"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=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25334,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions\/25334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}