{"id":18855,"date":"2019-09-11T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18855"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","slug":"not-prepared-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18855","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are not prepared to stand by&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking in support of an emergency motion on Wednesday (September 11) on the latest Royal Mail dispute, Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke explained Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite organises manager and senior staff in Royal Mail and so the CWU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dispute is one that we in Unite feel we must support,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite managers and senior staff in Royal Mail have seen threats to our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 job security and an environment that has seen morale amongst our membership drop to an unprecedented low,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bYou may recall that in 2017 we also made a similar pledge to the CWU as Royal Mail attacked pay and conditions in a continuing race to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat future cannot be built on sand and the weak foundations of privatisation, deregulation and ever more insecure contracting and employment models.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burke said that Unite unequivocally supports the fight against privatisation and will continue to support the campaign to defend the Royal Mail and Post Office by \u00e2\u20ac\u015breturning them to where they belong in public ownership under a Labour government who are already committed to do it\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are not prepared to stand by and see this attack on the CWU,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he continued. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will stand with them in this fight back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their fight for the future of this vital public service and the dedicated people who work for it.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Urging Congress to support the Royal Mail workers in their dispute, he said Unite \u00e2\u20ac\u015bis proud to stand with the CWU\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The motion was carried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in support of an emergency motion on Wednesday (September 11) on the latest Royal Mail dispute, Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke explained Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stance. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite organises manager and senior staff in Royal Mail and so the CWU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dispute is one that we in Unite feel we must support,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[314,1221],"wps_subtitle":"Unite AGS Tony Burke speaks in support of CWU Royal Mail workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855"}],"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=18855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25011,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions\/25011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}