{"id":19162,"date":"2019-10-03T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19162"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:08","slug":"bill-gates-poverty-pay-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19162","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Poverty pay&#8217; row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates will face a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098poverty pay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 protest when he gives the Hawking Fellowship lecture in Cambridge on Monday (October 7) over his shareholding in a US sanitation company at the centre of a dispute over low wages and affordable healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members of Unite Community \u00e2\u20ac\u201c along with representatives of the US Teamsters union &#8211; will be protesting when Mr Gates, the recipient of the 2019 Professor Hawking Fellowship, gives the lecture at the Cambridge Union in Bridge Street at 10am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates is a major shareholder in Republic Services, one of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest waste disposal corporations, where sanitation workers are on strike over the demand for a living wage and affordable healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite head of Community Liane Groves said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is a sad juxtaposition that Bill Gates, one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s richest people worth an estimated $100 billion, is also a major shareholder in the highly profitable Republic Services company which is lamentably failing to provide decent wages and affordable healthcare to its workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is an added irony in that Bill Gates is well known as a noted philanthropist and humanitarian, but that generosity of spirit and largesse is not being replicated by a company where he has a major shareholding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe Cambridge demo is designed to draw attention to poverty pay and act as a wake-up call to Bill Gates to exert his considerable influence on the management of Republic Services to rectify these pay and affordable healthcare issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd it should not be forgotten that in the United States sanitation is the fifth most dangerous job &#8211; sadly, more sanitation workers are injured and killed than police officers and firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is the grim backcloth to this dispute and shows why there needs to be an urgent resolution.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Stephen Hawking, the distinguished theoretical physicist who died in 2018, was author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates will face a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098poverty pay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 protest when he gives the Hawking Fellowship lecture in Cambridge on Monday (October 7) over his shareholding in a US sanitation company at the centre of a dispute over low wages and affordable healthcare. &nbsp; Members of Unite Community \u00e2\u20ac\u201c along with representatives of the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1243],"wps_subtitle":"Bill Gates in \u00e2\u20ac\u0098poverty pay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 row as he gives Cambridge lecture","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162"}],"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=19162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24938,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162\/revisions\/24938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}