{"id":18177,"date":"2019-06-04T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18177"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:27","slug":"dhl-thurrock-suspend-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18177","title":{"rendered":"DHL warehouse strike off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Warehouse workers at DHL Services in West Thurrock, Essex have suspended their strike tomorrow (June 5) over the prospect of a serious deterioration in employment conditions to facilitate talks with their new employer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 51 workers, members of Unite, had voted unanimously for the 24-hour strike action as they face poorer working conditions when the contract is taken over by NFT Distribution on Thursday (June 6).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the strike has now been suspended to allow \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a window of opportunity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for talks with NFT Distribution bosses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dispute has a number of elements: no union recognition with NFT Distribution; different shift patterns; increased travelling time to the new Tilbury site eight\u00c2\u00a0miles away; poorer pension provisions; and failure to guarantee pay, terms and conditions for the rest of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members, who are predominately warehouse operatives, had voted by 100 per cent to strike tomorrow as they face the prospect of a serious and permanent erosion of their pay and working conditions,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Mary Hackwood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHowever, we have suspended the strike tomorrow as an act of goodwill to allow for a window of opportunity for positive talks with the NFT Distribution management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut should constructive proposals not be forthcoming from the company, we will have no hesitation in balloting our members again for strike action.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warehouse workers at DHL Services in West Thurrock, Essex have suspended their strike tomorrow (June 5) over the prospect of a serious deterioration in employment conditions to facilitate talks with their new employer. &nbsp; The 51 workers, members of Unite, had voted unanimously for the 24-hour strike action as they face poorer working conditions when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"DHL warehouse workers in Thurrock suspend strike for talks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177"}],"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=18177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25235,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions\/25235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}