{"id":18592,"date":"2019-08-07T17:38:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18592"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:59","slug":"new-offer-suspends-gatwick-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18592","title":{"rendered":"New offer suspends Gatwick strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Strikes by security workers at Gatwick airport have been suspended after an improved pay offer was made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 130 members of Unite, who are employed by ICTS (UK) to scan passengers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 luggage for explosive materials and other dangerous and prohibited materials, were due to stage a 48 hour strike from 06:00 on Saturday 10 August until 06:00 on Monday 12 August with a further four day strike called to begin on Tuesday 20 August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following extremely productive pay talks held today (Wednesday 7 August) a dramatically improved pay offer has been made. The workers will now be balloted on the improved offer with a recommendation to accept.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the pay talks ICTS (UK) has made a commitment to become a fully accredited real living wage employer, the first company at Gatwick airport to make this breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Jamie Major said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pay talks were extremely productive and the new pay offer will be balloted on by members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe commitment by ICTS to become a real living wage employer is welcome and Unite will be applying pressure to other Gatwick employers to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFollowing this pay offer it is hoped that there will be more harmonious industrial relations with ICTS moving forward.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes by security workers at Gatwick airport have been suspended after an improved pay offer was made. &nbsp; &nbsp; The 130 members of Unite, who are employed by ICTS (UK) to scan passengers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 luggage for explosive materials and other dangerous and prohibited materials, were due to stage a 48 hour strike from 06:00 on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[511,811,88],"wps_subtitle":"Security guards to vote on improved pay offer ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18592"}],"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=18592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25100,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18592\/revisions\/25100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}