{"id":20087,"date":"2020-03-04T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=20087"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:44:31","slug":"tulip-pork-jobs-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=20087","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Devastating&#8217; news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Urgent talks are being sought by Unite the union as pork producer Tulip Ltd announced today (March 4) that it was consulting on the future of its West Midlands plant at Tipton with the threat to more than 600 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite which has more than 200 members at the site, said the news is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098devastating\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional officer Rick Coyle said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is devastating for our members. We will be considering the serious implications of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement very closely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI will be seeking urgent talks with the management to see what can be done to save this site and also what redeployment opportunities there may be. I will be meeting our shop stewards for detailed discussions on Friday (March 6),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top priority will be the welfare of our members and their families at this difficult time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we will be giving them maximum support in the days and weeks ahead.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the firm has proposed to transfer operations from the West Midlands site to alternative sites within its UK network which will place 642 roles at Tipton at risk of redundancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent talks are being sought by Unite the union as pork producer Tulip Ltd announced today (March 4) that it was consulting on the future of its West Midlands plant at Tipton with the threat to more than 600 jobs. &nbsp; Unite which has more than 200 members at the site, said the news is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"More than 600 jobs under threat at West Midlands pork producer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087"}],"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=20087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24669,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions\/24669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}