{"id":2599,"date":"2015-01-05T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2015-01-06T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T16:10:21","slug":"weather-jacket-firm-strike-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"Weather jacket firm in strike storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most famous all weather waxed jacket makers, J Barbour and Son Ltd, will now have the fabric of their industrial relations policy tested as Unite members go on strike from today (January 5) until the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barbour jackets at renowned retailers such as Harrods, Harvey Nichols and John Lewis could well be in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite members at the posh coat company are taking action over forced changes to their contracts. These include the removal of the unsocial hours payment and the introduction of a requirement to work until 11 pm. Not ideal for a happy family life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Gateshead company, which prides itself on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098family values\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, was accused by Unite of being \u00e2\u20ac\u0098anti-family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with its sign or be sacked ultimatum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers on less than the living wage, many with family and caring responsibilities, face being sacked if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sign up to the new contracts by January 30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBarbour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sign or be sacked ultimatum is bullying and anti-family,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Fazia Hussain-Brown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMany of the workers struggling to get by on less than the living wage are the sole breadwinner and have family or caring responsibilities. For a company that prides itself on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098family values\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to seek to railroad through cuts and unsocial changes to their contracts is hypocrisy of the highest order,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The four week strike follows a six day stoppage earlier in December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe company should not underestimate the resolve of the workforce nor the impact that four weeks of strike action will have on supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBarbour management needs to live up to the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098family friendly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 values and negotiate a fair deal for its workforce,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Fazia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most famous all weather waxed jacket makers, J Barbour and Son Ltd, will now have the fabric of their industrial relations policy tested as Unite members go on strike from today (January 5) until the end of the month. &nbsp; Barbour jackets at renowned retailers such as Harrods, Harvey Nichols and John Lewis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[132],"wps_subtitle":"Workers say no to \u00e2\u20ac\u0098barbed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ultimatum ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"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=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}