{"id":2579,"date":"2014-12-22T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2014-12-22T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:16:57","slug":"pay-talks-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"Pay talks plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has urged Japan Airlines today (Monday December 22), to get back around the negotiating table to avoid an industrial action ballot \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as cabin crew working out of its Heathrow base overwhelmingly rejected the airline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest pay offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cabin crew voted by 82.5 per cent to reject the offer, which sees long serving crew at the top of the pay scale getting no pay rise, other than a \u00c2\u014196 a year increase in London weighting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLoyal cabin crew feel totally undervalued and insulted by this pay offer, which fails to recognise their hard work on some of the airline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most profitable routes,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Simon McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lowest paid crew, on a basic wage of \u00c2\u01419,000 a year, will only see their basic pay increase by \u00c2\u0141285 a year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rejection of the pay offer prompted warnings from Unite that the airline had misjudged the mood of loyal cabin crew at Heathrow and failed to recognise their important role in turning the airline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fortunes around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines posted profits of just over \u00c2\u01411bn last year and is on track for another successful year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bJapan Airlines has totally misjudged the mood of cabin crew operating out of Heathrow and failed to recognise their role in securing profits of \u00c2\u01411bn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFeelings are running high and the airline needs to get back around the negotiating table or face the real possibility of a vote in favour of industrial action,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Simon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite represents cabin crew operating on routes out of Heathrow to destinations in Japan, including Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has urged Japan Airlines today (Monday December 22), to get back around the negotiating table to avoid an industrial action ballot \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as cabin crew working out of its Heathrow base overwhelmingly rejected the airline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest pay offer. &nbsp; Cabin crew voted by 82.5 per cent to reject the offer, which sees long serving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[125],"wps_subtitle":"Japan Airlines misjudge staff mood over pay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}