{"id":20026,"date":"2020-02-26T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=20026"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:30","slug":"eddie-stobart-staff-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=20026","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unsettled and unsure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite, which represents hundreds of members at Eddie Stobart Logistics plc, is still seeking reassurances about the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future following its takeover by venture capitalists DBay last December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite renewed its call for a high level meeting with the company to better understand the short, medium and long-term plans for the workforce today (Wednesday 26 February), coinciding with the publication of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s half year results which revealed heavy losses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite national office Adrian Jones said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is almost three months since Dbay took control of Eddie Stobart and the company has still not offered a meeting to provide reassurances to the workforce about its future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members are becoming increasingly unsettled and unsure about their future due to the failure of such a meeting to be held, where Stobart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans can be properly discussed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFollowing the publication of the latest half yearly results which highlight significant losses at the company those concerns have naturally increased.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn order to restore morale among the workforce and in the interests of transparency it is important that such a meeting is held as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bA failure to hold a meeting will inevitably increase the concern and worry among the workforce.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite, which represents hundreds of members at Eddie Stobart Logistics plc, is still seeking reassurances about the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future following its takeover by venture capitalists DBay last December. &nbsp; Unite renewed its call for a high level meeting with the company to better understand the short, medium and long-term plans for the workforce today (Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[529,785,922],"wps_subtitle":"Eddie Stobart staff still seeking reassurances on their future following takeover","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026"}],"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=20026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24695,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026\/revisions\/24695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}