{"id":18620,"date":"2019-08-12T16:46:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18620"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:38","slug":"ford-dagenham-second-pay-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18620","title":{"rendered":"Ford Dagenham contractors win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A second pay victory for contract workers employed at Ford Dagenham has been notched up by Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 workers assembling engines, employed by Lineside Logistics at the Dagenham plant, have overwhelmingly voted to accept a one year three per cent pay deal backdated to July 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are also additional financial improvements to terms and conditions, including \u00c2\u014125 a week extra for first aiders and a new attendance bonus scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This latest pay victory follows a three per cent pay deal for 150 cleaners employed by Hamton Environmental cleaning contractors at Ford Dagenham which Unite negotiated earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Matt Smith said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bFollowing constructive negotiations, we were pleased to have recommended this pay deal, especially as it included additional money for volunteer first aiders and a new attendance bonus for employees which could see an employee with 100 per cent annual attendance rewarded with \u00c2\u0141500 extra pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe money to reward hardworking volunteer first aiders and the attendance scheme are groundbreaking,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We would certainly urge more employers to reward those prepared to save lives in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGiven the particularly difficult circumstances facing the automotive sector due to Brexit and the abject failure of this government to formulate a comprehensive industrial strategy, this package demonstrates just how important it is for workers to belong to a trade union which delivers for its members,&#8221; Smith went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis pay victory is the second one that Unite has notched up for workers employed by contractors at Dagenham this year.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second pay victory for contract workers employed at Ford Dagenham has been notched up by Unite. &nbsp; More than 300 workers assembling engines, employed by Lineside Logistics at the Dagenham plant, have overwhelmingly voted to accept a one year three per cent pay deal backdated to July 1, 2019. &nbsp; There are also additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1208,674],"wps_subtitle":"Second pay victory for contract workers at Ford Dagenham ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620"}],"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=18620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25089,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620\/revisions\/25089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}