{"id":27798,"date":"2021-02-12T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=27798"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T12:15:44","slug":"quorn-members-secure-excellent-pay-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=27798","title":{"rendered":"Quorn members secure &#8216;excellent&#8217; pay deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Strikes planned at Quorn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Teesside meat-free paste production factory have been cancelled after staff voted to accept an&nbsp;<strong><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0098excellent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>pay offer from the company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than&nbsp;60 production workers,&nbsp;including lab, maintenance, electricians and stores staff at the&nbsp;Billingham&nbsp;factory of Marlow Foods Limited, which trades under Quorn Foods, will benefit from the deal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal includes a 2 per cent pay rise backdated to June 2020 and an increase of retail price index (RPI) plus 1 per cent from June 2021 to May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal also includes an increase from 13 weeks to 26 weeks for sick pay and a rise in staff retirement bonuses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite regional officer Fazia Hussain-Brown said,&nbsp;\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis excellent deal is testament to the hard work of Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workplace representatives and the company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe look forward to working productively with the company as it goes from strength to strength in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis pay deal shows the kinds of benefits being in a trade union brings and is a prime example of why workers should join Unite.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quorn strike action off at Teesside factory as staff accept \u00e2\u20ac\u0098excellent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798"}],"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=27798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27801,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions\/27801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}