{"id":19915,"date":"2020-01-31T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19915"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:32","slug":"newham-hail-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19915","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marvellous victory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A dozen council tax benefit managers at Newham have hailed victory in their grading dispute, Unite said today (January 30).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said that its members would now receive \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a very significant lump sum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the exact figure remains confidential &#8211; and move to the top of the next grade on the pay scale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dispute had centred on council bosses failing to properly implement a job evaluation scheme which had led to the managers being incorrectly graded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a marvellous victory for our members which was achieved because they belong to the fight back union, Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe achieved what we asked for &#8211; a backdated increase in the grading scale and, in addition, a significant lump sum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe lesson is clear, where we organise, we can win. When management says \u00e2\u20ac\u0098No\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite gives workers the means to successfully fight back.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The staff had been due to strike this week, but the action was suspended for the now successful talks to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen council tax benefit managers at Newham have hailed victory in their grading dispute, Unite said today (January 30). &nbsp; Unite said that its members would now receive \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a very significant lump sum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the exact figure remains confidential &#8211; and move to the top of the next grade on the pay scale. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1033],"wps_subtitle":"Council tax staff in Newham hail victory in grading dispute","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19915"}],"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=19915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24734,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19915\/revisions\/24734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}