{"id":19351,"date":"2019-10-22T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19351"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:06","slug":"greenwich-council-repair-worker-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19351","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Intransigent management&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>About 120 housing repair workers at Greenwich council are to strike for five days in disgust over the way they have been treated, Unite said today (October 22).<\/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 and will now strike on October 28 and November 1, 2, 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The strikes will be staged by carpenters, electricians and plumbers, based at the Birchmere depot, Eastern Way, London SE28 8BF.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe Royal Borough of Greenwich council has a very poor employment relations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 culture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members are faced with proposals to introduce a new pay structure which will cut pay by 20 per cent and are disgusted by the way they have been treated by this local authority,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe failure of the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bosses to address our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 legitimate concerns has now resulted in five days of strike action.<\/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\u015bThat said, Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s door is open 24\/7 for constructive talks before strike action starts next Monday (October 28).\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 120 housing repair workers at Greenwich council are to strike for five days in disgust over the way they have been treated, Unite said today (October 22). &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 pay [&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":[147,999,192],"wps_subtitle":"Greenwich council housing repair workers to strike for five days ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351"}],"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=19351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24897,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions\/24897"}],"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=19351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}