{"id":24432,"date":"2020-10-30T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=24432"},"modified":"2020-10-30T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:03:33","slug":"the-word-is-on-the-streets-stop-these-swingeing-pay-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=24432","title":{"rendered":"The word is on the streets – stop these swingeing pay cuts\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today (October 30) the streets around Heathrow saw an ad van carrying Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear message to Heathrow Airport CEO, John Holland-Kaye, to stop cutting staff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wages and rewarding himself and the board with eye-wateringly large bonuses.<\/p>\n

In September, Heathrow Airports Ltd (HAL) issued a section 188 notice, beginning a process which could mean over 4,000 workers directly employed by the airport being fired and then rehired on vastly inferior contracts.<\/p>\n

The workers, including security officers, engineers and firefighters, face losing over \u00c2\u01418,000 per annum and up to 24 per cent of their incomes. Many workers fear that they will be forced to sell their homes and cars or move to cheaper areas.<\/p>\n

HAL, which boasted that it had the resources to make it through the pandemic and whose chief executive was paid \u00c2\u01412.6m in pay and pensions last year, says that the cuts to the wages of workers will be of a permanent rather than a temporary nature.<\/p>\n

Unite has put forward its own proposals of how money can be saved at the airport without the need for swingeing permanent cuts to workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay.<\/p>\n

But today was all about the people of Heathrow seeing exactly what was happening to their friends and neighbours who work for the airport.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are launching our ad van campaign that will be touring the Heathrow area driving home the message to the public that wages of airport workers sustain and support the local economy,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 explained Unite regional coordinating officer Wayne King.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf they have less to spend this will have an adverse impact from Uxbridge, the prime minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s constituency, to Staines; from Hounslow to Slough,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n

And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very true \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if workers have less money the whole local economy will suffer.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bRestaurants, pubs, cafes, newsagents, shoe repairers, dry cleaners and florists will be among the businesses that will be hit as there are fewer pounds in wallets and purses,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said King.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are calling on Heathrow Airport boss John Holland-Kaye to use HAL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cash reserves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 mountain to protect airport jobs, rather than focus exclusively on generous dividend pay-outs to shareholders. We strongly believe that social responsibility should complement the demands of the balance sheet.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTo chart a constructive way forward, Unite remains open for talks with HAL at any time, any place, including discussions on how the chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new job support scheme (JSS) can be utilised to safeguard the jobs at Heathrow.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite believes that it has public opinion firmly on its side and HAL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hardline stance will cause it long-term reputational damage,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he concluded.<\/p>\n

And the ad van hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gone unnoticed. Local MP John McDonnell saw the van and tweeted, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bHeathrow Airport is using the pandemic as the excuse to cut the wages of my constituents by massive amounts permanently. This ad van is touring my constituency to put the wage cuts in the context of how much the CE and directors were paid this year.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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GET INVOLVED\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sign the letter to the CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WATCH THE VIDEO\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This video uses testimony from workers who for fear of reprisals have asked for their voices to be disguised.<\/p>\n

By Amanda Campbell @amanda_unite <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are calling on Heathrow Airport boss John Holland-Kaye to use HAL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cash reserves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 mountain to protect airport jobs, rather than focus exclusively on generous dividend pay-outs to shareholders. We strongly believe that social responsibility should complement the demands of the balance sheet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1207],"tags":[195,263,609],"wps_subtitle":"Unite sends out clear message to Heathrow CEO with campaign ad van\u00c2\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24432"}],"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=24432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24437,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24432\/revisions\/24437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}