{"id":2808,"date":"2015-01-22T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:42:08","slug":"squeezed-go-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"Squeezed out workers go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of Unite members, workers for the juice giant Refresco Gerber, are set to initiate a series of actions next Tuesday (January 27), after their employer has run roughshod over their pay, terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nRefresco Gerber, which produces supermarket brand products for stores such as Waitrose, Asda and Tesco, and works with established juice brands such as Ocean Spray and Innocent, has refused to fully negotiate new shift patterns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe company has also forced cuts to overtime and holiday pay, as well as imposing reductions in holiday entitlements.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLoyal staff who have worked hard to make Refresco Gerber Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest juice manufacturer feel betrayed by plans to railroad through cuts to their pay, terms and conditions,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Roy Winter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThey are angry that their modest working conditions are being torn up in a bid to squeeze every last drop of profit out of them,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis further attack on their terms and conditions will deepen the daily struggle to make ends meet that a majority of the workforce face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe race to the bottom needs to stop,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Winter went on to say. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe company needs to drop its refusal to negotiate and enter into meaningful talks to avoid the inevitable disruption that prolonged strike action will have on the supply of well-loved household brands.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOver 400 striking workers, who are production operators, engineers and warehouse workers, have planned a series of eleven 36-hour strikes to take place over 10 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nStay tuned on UNITElive for the latest on the planned stoppages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Unite members, workers for the juice giant Refresco Gerber, are set to initiate a series of actions next Tuesday (January 27), after their employer has run roughshod over their pay, terms and conditions. &nbsp; Refresco Gerber, which produces supermarket brand products for stores such as Waitrose, Asda and Tesco, and works with established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Juice giant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workers set to strike over assaults to pay and conditions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808"}],"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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}