{"id":19668,"date":"2019-12-12T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19668"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:50","slug":"argos-christmas-strike-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19668","title":{"rendered":"Determined solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Christmas strike action at Argos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 flagship distribution centre in Barton, Staffordshire, has been called off after UPS shunter and HGV drivers secured a pay deal worth about 4.5 per cent, Unite\u00c2\u00a0 said today (December 12).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 Unite members, who manoeuvre loads around the Barton distribution centre, voted overwhelmingly (90 per cent) in favour of a pay deal from UPS management, following talks with the conciliation service Acas earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strike action over the festive period at the distribution centre, which is near Burton on Trent, has now been called off, with back pay and the agreed increase set to be paid before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members were determined to secure a fair deal and because of their solidarity a package worth around 4.5 per cent has been secured,&#8221; said\u00c2\u00a0Unite regional officer Rick Coyle.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are very pleased that disruption to Argos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 customers will now be averted and work can carry on over the Christmas period as normal.\u00c2\u00a0Unite looks forward to working constructively with UPS and Argos in the future.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas strike action at Argos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 flagship distribution centre in Barton, Staffordshire, has been called off after UPS shunter and HGV drivers secured a pay deal worth about 4.5 per cent, Unite\u00c2\u00a0 said today (December 12). &nbsp; More than 40 Unite members, who manoeuvre loads around the Barton distribution centre, voted overwhelmingly (90 per cent) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[663,646],"wps_subtitle":"Argos Christmas strike off after UPS Staffordshire staff secure pay deal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668"}],"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=19668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24809,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions\/24809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}