{"id":20083,"date":"2020-03-04T16:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=20083"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:44:31","slug":"coffee-kenco-jobs-loss-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=20083","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Strong-arm tactics&#8217; slammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The decision to sack and reemploy 300 workers on inferior pay and conditions at a coffee processing plant in Banbury, Oxfordshire will be strongly opposed, Unite said today (March 4).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite threw down the gauntlet after talks with the management at JD Egberts Kenco\u00c2\u00a0adjourned today after the company served notice to dismiss and re-engage its entire workforce at Banbury \u00e2\u20ac\u201c before any consultation process had started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite, which has about 300 members at the Ruscote Avenue site that produces Kenco Tassimo and Millicano, pledged to campaign against the decision and take the workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 case to the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most senior executives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite national officer for the food industry Joe Clarke said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn nearly 30 years of union work I have never encountered\u00c2\u00a0such a negative approach from an employer to ignore the established consultation and negotiating procedures. It has come like a bolt out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat is a shame about this dispute is that previously Unite had enjoyed good industrial relations with the firm, but unfortunately the current crop of managers is showing its lack of experience and maturity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf the multinational company is having difficulties at Banbury, Unite is prepared to engage constructively to meet the challenges \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but what we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put up with is strong-arm tactics which unilaterally destroys employment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe call on the company to withdraw its \u00e2\u20ac\u0098sack and reemploy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 diktat and enter into meaningful negotiations. Meanwhile, Unite is lobbying for the support of European affiliated trade unions and global trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will not stand by and see our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 livelihoods destroyed, and the collateral damage to the local Banbury economy and social fabric. The campaign now moves into top gear.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to sack and reemploy 300 workers on inferior pay and conditions at a coffee processing plant in Banbury, Oxfordshire will be strongly opposed, Unite said today (March 4). &nbsp; Unite threw down the gauntlet after talks with the management at JD Egberts Kenco\u00c2\u00a0adjourned today after the company served notice to dismiss and re-engage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1304],"wps_subtitle":"Coffee processing jobs loss plan stirs campaign into action\u00c2\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083"}],"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=20083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24670,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions\/24670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}