{"id":26798,"date":"2020-12-01T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=26798"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:05:41","slug":"stay-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=26798","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stay strong&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite members employed by Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) began strike action today (December 1) in a dispute over savage wage cuts imposed on the workforce through a brutal fire and rehire programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The striking workers, which include staff that are critical to the operation of the airport, such as \u00c2\u00a0firefighters, engineers, campus security, baggage operations, central terminal operations, landside and airside operations, overwhelmingly voted for strike action with 84 per cent in favour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are fighting the imposition of fire and rehire contracts which would force them to accept permanent pay cuts of \u00c2\u01418,000 a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (December 1) has sent a message of solidarity to these brave workers taking a stand to defend their livelihoods in the video below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stay strong - Len McCluskey message to HAL strikers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9m4_kjiR3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Film by Martin Scanlon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite members employed by Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) began strike action today (December 1) in a dispute over savage wage cuts imposed on the workforce through a brutal fire and rehire programme. The striking workers, which include staff that are critical to the operation of the airport, such as \u00c2\u00a0firefighters, engineers, campus security, baggage operations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,24],"tags":[125,511,195,1504,160,88],"wps_subtitle":"WATCH: Unite GS Len McCluskey in message of solidarity to striking Heathrow workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798"}],"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=26798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26804,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions\/26804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}