{"id":29076,"date":"2021-06-02T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29076"},"modified":"2021-06-02T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:43:11","slug":"absolute-national-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29076","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Absolute national scandal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite national officer for hospitality Dave Turnbull sent a loud and clear message after Wetherspoons CEO Tim Martin called for more workers from the EU to tackle massive staff shortages now facing the UK&#8217;s hospitality industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turnbull lambasted Martin and hospitality bosses as a whole for failing to respect the sector&#8217;s workforce throughout and before the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You need to pay staff a living wage and treat staff fairly and they will work for you,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen in the clip 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=\"Unite message for Tim Martin\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y75QZl6Hx8k?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>Compiled by Martin Scanlon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite national officer for hospitality Dave Turnbull sent a loud and clear message after Wetherspoons CEO Tim Martin called for more workers from the EU to tackle massive staff shortages now facing the UK&#8217;s hospitality industry. Turnbull lambasted Martin and hospitality bosses as a whole for failing to respect the sector&#8217;s workforce throughout and before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[1295,1653,303,1654],"wps_subtitle":"Unite national officer Dave Turnbull: hospitality staff shortages 'a crisis of the industry's own creation'","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076"}],"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=29076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29082,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions\/29082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}