{"id":19281,"date":"2019-10-14T16:55:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19281"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:07","slug":"derbyshire-flooring-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19281","title":{"rendered":"Flooring workers ’roundly reject’ pay offer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 70 production workers at Forbo Flooring UK Ltd in Ripley, Derbyshire will stage the first of ten 48 hour strikes on Tuesday (October 15), after rejecting a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0098unsatisfactory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer, Unite\u00c2\u00a0 said\u00c2\u00a0on Monday (October 14)<\/p>\n

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The workers at the High Holborn Road site rejected a slightly improved two year package backdated to 1 January 2019 and running to 31 December 2020 by a large majority today.<\/p>\n

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Unite said that a culture of staff being undervalued and disrespected hangs over this dispute.<\/p>\n

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The rejected package included in year one (2019) 2.2 per cent on basic salary and a bonus from January 1, 2019; and a one-off additional two days holiday on December 23 and 24 2019.<\/p>\n

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In year two (2020), there would have been a 2.1 per cent increase on basic salary and a bonus from\u00c2\u00a0 January 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

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The first 48 hour strike starting tomorrow (October 15) will be followed by 48 hour strikes on October 22 and 29. There will be 48 hour strikes starting on November 5, 12, 19 and 26. In December, the 48 hour strikes will commence on\u00c2\u00a0 December 3, 10 and 17. All the strikes will start\u00c2\u00a0just after midnight.<\/p>\n

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This will be accompanied by a continuous overtime ban commencing at\u00c2\u00a0just after midnight tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Unite regional officer Cheryl Pidgeon said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis last minute slightly improved pay package has been roundly rejected by our members and, as a result, they will be starting the first day of ten 48 hour strikes tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis dispute has been marred by the inconsistent treatment of all employees; bullying and harassment; and a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098we tell you, but you do\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 culture,” she added. “We offered to work constructively with the conciliation service Acas to resolve these issues, but this was firmly rejected by the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Swiss directors.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe hope that tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strike action will act like a cold shower of common sense and make these recalcitrant bosses realise that the industrial action, stretching up to Christmas, will have a dramatic and adverse impact on the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s production schedules.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTherefore, it is in management\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interests to sit down with Unite for meaningful negotiations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s door is open for such talks 24\/7.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unite members voted 61 per cent for strike action and by 60 per cent for industrial action short of strike action after rejecting the original offer of a 2.2 per cent pay offer for the year starting\u00c2\u00a0January 1,\u00c2\u00a0 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 70 production workers at Forbo Flooring UK Ltd in Ripley, Derbyshire will stage the first of ten 48 hour strikes on Tuesday (October 15), after rejecting a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0098unsatisfactory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer, Unite\u00c2\u00a0 said\u00c2\u00a0on Monday (October 14)   The workers at the High Holborn Road site rejected a slightly improved two year package backdated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1247],"wps_subtitle":"Forbo Flooring workers to hold the first of 20 days of strike action over pay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281"}],"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=19281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24914,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions\/24914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}