{"id":17980,"date":"2019-05-01T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17980"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:48","slug":"sweet-deal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17980","title":{"rendered":"Sweet deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>About 1,000 workers working for iconic chocolate maker Cadbury have accepted a three year pay deal, which Unite said was \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a good package in uncertain times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The employees at the Cadbury sites, which include Chirk, near Wrexham;\u00c2\u00a0 Birmingham; and Marlbrook in Herefordshire, have accepted the three year deal which will run from March this year until\u00c2\u00a0 March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Year one, starting in March 2019, will see a 2.7 per cent increase and the retail price index rate for years two and three.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are pleased that by a large majority \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 75 per cent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c our members, who are covered by the national agreement, have accepted this three year pay deal,&#8221; said Unite national officer for the food industry Joe Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe believe that this is a good inflation-proofed pay package given the uncertain times we are going through and the economic challenges posed by Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis package will provide a level of financial security for our 1,000 members for the next three years and I would like to pay tribute to our reps who greatly assisted in the negotiations.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cadbury, formerly Cadbury&#8217;s, is a multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010. Its best known products include Dairy Milk and the Roses collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,000 workers working for iconic chocolate maker Cadbury have accepted a three year pay deal, which Unite said was \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a good package in uncertain times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. &nbsp; The employees at the Cadbury sites, which include Chirk, near Wrexham;\u00c2\u00a0 Birmingham; and Marlbrook in Herefordshire, have accepted the three year deal which will run from March this [&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":[486,724],"wps_subtitle":"Three year Cadbury pay package \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a good deal for uncertain times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, says Unite\u00c2\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980"}],"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=17980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25306,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions\/25306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}