{"id":2760,"date":"2015-01-19T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2015-01-19T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:10:59","slug":"excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"No excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In the wake of insurance giant Aviva\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s takeover of pensions company Friends Life in December, reports emerged today (January 19) that Aviva will seek \u00c2\u0141225m in annual cost savings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has warned that the savings must not come at the cost of jobs following the takeover, which was worth \u00c2\u01415.6bn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The union has argued that the relentless drive to cut costs will weaken the future of the company, and that customer service would suffer as a result if staff terms and conditions were eroded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite represents about 4,000 members across both companies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will be seeking assurances from Aviva that the takeover of Friends Life will not be used as an excuse to slash jobs and erode terms and conditions of staff in the pursuit of \u00c2\u0141225m cost savings,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165\u00c2\u00a0said Unite national officer Dominic Hook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will actively engage with Aviva and Friends Life to avoid job losses,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe skills and experience of the long serving staff across Friends Life and Aviva will form the basis of the future success of the new company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bNow both Aviva and Friends Life need to give their staff clarity and assurances about the future of the combined workforce in the new company.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of insurance giant Aviva\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s takeover of pensions company Friends Life in December, reports emerged today (January 19) that Aviva will seek \u00c2\u0141225m in annual cost savings. &nbsp; &nbsp; Unite has warned that the savings must not come at the cost of jobs following the takeover, which was worth \u00c2\u01415.6bn. &nbsp; &nbsp; The [&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":[126],"wps_subtitle":"Unite warns insurance company Aviva against slashing jobs following multi-billion pound takeover","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}