{"id":23144,"date":"2020-08-07T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=23144"},"modified":"2020-08-07T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:44:34","slug":"nothing-more-than-commodities-unite-response-to-bas-shameful-staff-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=23144","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Nothing more than commodities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Unite response to BA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shameful staff cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite assistant general secretary, Howard Beckett, today (August 7) told Sky News, &#8220;There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 6,000 staff forced to apply for voluntary redundancy, not on good terms I must say, and in addition to that BA are looking to make further reductions of over 4,000 so BA are looking to make a reduction across their workforce of 30 per cent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that will come to a total figure of over 10,000 employees.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>We have the full interview below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yLHhJh56Tws\"><strong><em>WATCH HOWARD:<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Martin Scanlon \u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>@BAbetrayal #BAbetrayal <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett today (August 7) told Sky News, \u00e2\u20ac\u0098There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 6,000 staff forced to apply for voluntary redundancy, not on good terms I must say, and in addition to that BA are looking to make further reductions of\u00c2\u00a0over 4,000 so BA are looking to make a reduction across their workforce of 30 per cent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that will come to a total figure of over 10,000 employees.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[390,263],"wps_subtitle":"It now looks like over 10,000 BA staff will lose their jobs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144"}],"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=23144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23147,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions\/23147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}