{"id":19155,"date":"2019-10-02T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19155"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:08","slug":"intransigent-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19155","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Intransigent management&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>About 120 housing repair workers at Greenwich council have overwhelmingly voted to strike as they are disgusted over the way they are being treated, Unite said today (October 2).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said its members had voted by 95 per cent for strike action over a plan to introduce a new pay structure which will cut pay by 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dates for strike action by the carpenters, electricians and plumbers, based at the Birchmere depot, Eastern Way, London SE28 8BF, will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is apparent that the Royal Borough of Greenwich council is currently beleaguered by a very poor employment relations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 culture,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0said Unite regional officer Onay Kasab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is now coming home to roost after our members voted overwhelmingly to strike \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they are disgusted by the way they have been treated by this local authority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThey are faced with proposals to introduce a new pay structure which will cut pay by 20 per cent,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite has endeavoured over a long period to reach a fair settlement to this dispute, but, so far, we have been met with an intransigent management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will be announcing strike dates soon, but Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s door remains open for a constructive dialogue with the council before industrial action kicks in.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 120 housing repair workers at Greenwich council have overwhelmingly voted to strike as they are disgusted over the way they are being treated, Unite said today (October 2). &nbsp; Unite said its members had voted by 95 per cent for strike action over a plan to introduce a new pay structure which will cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Greenwich council housing repair workers vote for strike action over new pay structure","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155"}],"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=19155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24941,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions\/24941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}