{"id":19811,"date":"2020-01-20T17:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:34","slug":"m25-maintenance-pay-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19811","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Excellent pay deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers employed to undertake vital highways maintenance work on the M25 have ended their dispute after securing an improved pay offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite had balloted its members for industrial action after an initial pay deal was vetoed by senior management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After Unite balloted for strike action a revised offer of a one year pay deal worth 3.2 per cent and \u00c2\u0141250 per worker was proposed. The new pay offer was overwhelmingly accepted by members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 250 workers who work from six depots located around the M25 will benefit from the pay deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workers are employed by Balfour Beatty and Egis Road Operations and work under the auspices of the joint venture company Connect Plus Services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is an excellent pay deal that has been secured by our members standing together,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Malcolm Bonnett. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe deal shows what can be achieved through negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will now be working with the companies concerned to build on this agreement in order to ensure that industrial relations are enhanced and strengthened in the future.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers employed to undertake vital highways maintenance work on the M25 have ended their dispute after securing an improved pay offer. &nbsp; Unite had balloted its members for industrial action after an initial pay deal was vetoed by senior management. &nbsp; After Unite balloted for strike action a revised offer of a one year pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1286,65,1287],"wps_subtitle":"M25 maintenance workers secure pay rise to resolve dispute","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811"}],"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=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24767,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/24767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}