{"id":20054,"date":"2020-03-02T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:44:31","slug":"len-mccluskey-ed-sabisky-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=20054","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pillar of decency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>It is with the utmost sadness that I must advise that our friend and colleague Mr\u00c2\u00a0Ed Sabisky died yesterday (Sunday, March 1) in hospital following his stroke ten\u00c2\u00a0days ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At this tragic time our thoughts are first of all with his wife Kate, their children and the rest of their family.\u00c2\u00a0 Unite will offer them every support within our power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We also repeat the family&#8217;s fervent wish for privacy at this time and request that the media do not seek to contact Ed&#8217;s family, friends or associates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ed has been Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Executive Finance Director throughout its history, and previously held the same position in the T&amp;G.\u00c2\u00a0 Under his stewardship we have built a financially strong and sound union with the resources to provide the support and services our members need.\u00c2\u00a0 An enormous deficit that Unite inherited at birth has been entirely eliminated, we have built up by far the largest dispute fund in the trade union movement, and a nearly insolvent pension fund has been turned around to the benefit of past, present and future employees.\u00c2\u00a0 Ed also restored our Eastbourne centre to financial health and played a key role in major property projects, our new Birmingham building above all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, a list of Ed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s professional achievements do not begin to do justice, on their own, to the man.\u00c2\u00a0 He was a pillar of decency and personal integrity, a kind colleague, wise counsellor and talented executive who determined to put his skills at the service of trade unionism because he shared our values.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every one of us at Unite will miss Ed.\u00c2\u00a0 He leaves the largest hole in our operations and our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with the utmost sadness that I must advise that our friend and colleague Mr\u00c2\u00a0Ed Sabisky died yesterday (Sunday, March 1) in hospital following his stroke ten\u00c2\u00a0days ago. &nbsp; At this tragic time our thoughts are first of all with his wife Kate, their children and the rest of their family.\u00c2\u00a0 Unite will offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[160],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS Len McCluskey on death of friend and colleague Ed Sabisky","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054"}],"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=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24680,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions\/24680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}