{"id":19981,"date":"2020-02-19T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19981"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:31","slug":"allied-bakeries-win-pancake-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19981","title":{"rendered":"Allied Bakeries win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Allied Bakeries workers have voted to accept an improved pay offer and so called off planned industrial action, ending the threat of disruption to pancake supply ahead of Pancake Day. The result, Unite has said, confirms that union-organised workforces can win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional coordinating officer Susan Fitzgerald\u00c2\u00a0commended the workforce at Allied Bakeries in Northern Ireland whose decisive and powerful strike action on Sunday (February 16) won a significantly improved pay offer which was subsequently accepted by the workforce, ending the industrial dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe workers at Allied Bakeries have voted overwhelmingly with a ninety percent majority to accept the significantly improved pay offer made by the company,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This provides an above-inflation pay increase and will mean that instead of real terms incomes falling as would have been the case with offers only days ago, these workers will now enjoy a real-terms pay increase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis outcome was hard won and was only achieved through the strength and militancy of the workers themselves,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Indeed the failure by management stooges to breach the workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 picket line was the decisive factor in winning this uplift and forced bosses to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is the second recent win for our members in Northern Ireland bakeries \u00e2\u20ac\u201c both of which came on the back of strong votes for industrial action after below-inflation pay increases were rejected by workers. In the case of Hovis, managers averted a strike by moving quickly to show some respect and increase their offer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in the case of Allied Bakeries it took workers taking to picket lines in freezing conditions for them to see sense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bStrike action is always a last resort for workers and no union enters into an industrial dispute lightly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but it should be clear to bosses that when Unite enters an industrial dispute it does so fully committed to securing a win for our members. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope bosses take notice of this result and resolve to meet workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay expectations so as to avoid further unnecessary strikes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allied Bakeries workers have voted to accept an improved pay offer and so called off planned industrial action, ending the threat of disruption to pancake supply ahead of Pancake Day. The result, Unite has said, confirms that union-organised workforces can win. &nbsp; Unite regional coordinating officer Susan Fitzgerald\u00c2\u00a0commended the workforce at Allied Bakeries in Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[219],"wps_subtitle":"Workers at Allied Bakeries vote to accept improved pay offer ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981"}],"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=19981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24707,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions\/24707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}