{"id":18226,"date":"2019-06-11T16:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18226"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:26","slug":"two-year-pay-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18226","title":{"rendered":"Two-year pay victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers at glass manufacturer Encirc Limited in Elton Cheshire have hailed victory in a dispute over pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 475 members voted by 78 per cent to accept the new two-year pay deal and, as a result, the four-week strike action due to begin tomorrow (June 12) will not go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deal gives workers a pay boost of 3.1 per cent from January 2019, and a pay increase from January 2020 in line with the consumer price index (CPI) rate as of September 2019, plus a 1 per cent AVC pension contribution match and a 5 per cent bonus consolidated into basic pay for year two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAfter intense negotiations, facilitated by the\u00c2\u00a0conciliation service Acas, we were able to put a new and improved offer to our members which they voted to accept,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Andrew Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a resounding win for our members at the Elton site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI would like to pay tribute to the solidarity our members and reps have shown throughout this dispute, without which we would not have achieved this pay victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe strike action due to start tomorrow (June 12) is now cancelled and we wish to work constructively with the company going forward.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at glass manufacturer Encirc Limited in Elton Cheshire have hailed victory in a dispute over pay. &nbsp; Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 475 members voted by 78 per cent to accept the new two-year pay deal and, as a result, the four-week strike action due to begin tomorrow (June 12) will not go ahead. &nbsp; The deal gives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Workers at Chesire glass manufacturer hail pay win and call off strikes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226"}],"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=18226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25215,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226\/revisions\/25215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}