{"id":19787,"date":"2020-01-14T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19787"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:35","slug":"greene-king-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19787","title":{"rendered":"Beer drinkers to face \u00e2\u20ac\u0098short measures\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Beer drinker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favourite ales could be in short supply after Greene King workers voted for strike action following a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098paltry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer by the brewery, Unite said\u00c2\u00a0on Monday (January 13).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite members, including draymen, brewery production staff and warehouse workers, voted strongly in favour of strike action after years of annual two per cent pay rises that fail to reflect the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The union has more than 160 members in Greene King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brewing and brands department, with the membership split between Bury St Edmunds, the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Suffolk headquarters, and distribution centres in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ballot comes after the \u00c2\u01414.6bn takeover of Greene King, which has 3,000 pubs, by CK Asset Holdings in August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDespite statements from Greene King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managing director Matt Starbuck that the brewery was ready to find a way to resolve this dispute, Unite has heard nothing since this ballot was announced,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Mark Jaina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe hope that now Greene King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bosses know our members are serious about receiving a reasonable pay rise, they will be ready to make a sensible offer before business is disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe leadership of CK Asset Holdings can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be happy with the fact that there is the possibility of loyal Greene King beer drinkers making do with short measures because of strikes,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members do not want to take industrial action, but they have been left with no choice because of the actions of Greene King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe fact is that another two per cent pay rise will not cut it when the cost of living is soaring and this dispute will not be settled until workers receive a reasonable increase to their wages.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer drinker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favourite ales could be in short supply after Greene King workers voted for strike action following a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098paltry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer by the brewery, Unite said\u00c2\u00a0on Monday (January 13). &nbsp; Unite members, including draymen, brewery production staff and warehouse workers, voted strongly in favour of strike action after years of annual two per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1213],"wps_subtitle":"Greene King workers vote for strike action over 'paltry' pay offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787"}],"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=19787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24776,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions\/24776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}