{"id":22586,"date":"2020-07-07T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=22586"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:33:37","slug":"massive-job-losses-rock-dhl-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=22586","title":{"rendered":"Massive job losses rock DHL workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On the eve of the Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech to the country designed to map the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, 2,200 workers involved in the production of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicles are being\u00c2\u00a0told that they could lose their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Two in five of the entire\u00c2\u00a0workforce employed by DHL on the\u00c2\u00a0JLR logistics contract face redundancy, across\u00c2\u00a0full-time, salaried and agency staff on the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts will fall on all of JLR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s major factories in the North West and the West Midlands including\u00c2\u00a0Castle Bromwich, Ellesmere Port, Halewood, Hams Hall, Midpoint, Solihull and Tyrefort, will be affected by the proposed redundancies.<\/p>\n<p>The 2,200 proposed redundancies comprise just under 40 per cent\u00c2\u00a0of the entire DHL workforce on the contract.<\/p>\n<p>DHL has not given a firm date about when the redundancy process will be completed but has indicated that half of the job losses are a result of a decline in car production and half are as a result of anticipated \u00e2\u20ac\u0098efficiency savings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a massive,\u00c2\u00a0bitter blow for a dedicated workforce -\u00c2\u00a0and on the eve of the Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech underscores the urgency of need for jobs-saving action from the government,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite national officer for logistics Matt Draper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAgain, while governments in Spain, France and Germany are acting swiftly to secure a future for their car manufacturers, we see no such ambition from the UK government and as a result jobs are going.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite has not yet received any details of how DHL intends to make 50 per cent of the proposed redundancies through efficiency savings but we are making abundantly clear to\u00c2\u00a0DHL that they will not be able\u00c2\u00a0to force these\u00c2\u00a0workers to undertake impossible workloads as they show other workers\u00c2\u00a0the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhile DHL is the employer, the\u00c2\u00a0reality is that\u00c2\u00a0the workers perform their roles for JLR. JLR has a moral duty to ensure that workers are treated fairly and decently during this incredibly difficult and stressful time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDHL must not attempt to\u00c2\u00a0make permanent full-time staff redundant while continuing to outsource work to sub-contractors,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Draper added.<\/p>\n<p>Unite says that it\u00c2\u00a0will ensure that the eventual number of job losses is kept to an absolute minimum.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Barckley Sumner <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech to the country designed to map the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, 2,200 workers involved in the production of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicles are being\u00c2\u00a0told that they could lose their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[1295,732,126,522],"wps_subtitle":"Over 2,200 more\u00c2\u00a0jobs to go \u00e2\u20ac\u201c news breaks on eve of Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586"}],"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=22586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22588,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586\/revisions\/22588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}