{"id":29143,"date":"2021-06-11T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29143"},"modified":"2021-06-11T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:39:34","slug":"bromley-library-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29143","title":{"rendered":"Bromley library win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite the union has hailed victory in the dispute at Bromley Central Library over late night openings with fewer staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talks this week with the employer social enterprise Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has led to an agreement that, instead of working up to four late nights a fortnight, library staff will work one late night a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strike action that the 17 staff, members of Unite, had voted unanimously for and was due to start on June 14, now won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite said that GLL had previously reduced staffing after a restructuring exercise \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but then asked staff to work an increased number of late nights at the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Unite members had welcomed increased library opening hours, the union had argued that such changes must be properly resourced, so as not to adversely impact on the work\/life balance of its members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is another important win for Bromley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Unite members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe fully support increased opening hours as we want the maximum access to this vital service for all sections of the community,&#8221; he added. &#8220;However, this can only be done with appropriate resourcing and by mutual agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn addition, we have won arrangements for those with caring responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are delighted that an agreement has been reached which also allows for a mechanism to be in place to resolve any future problems that may arise,&#8221; Kasab continued.\u00c2\u00a0&#8221; We wish to work constructively with GLL over library management in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI would like to pay tribute to our members and, in particular, to Unite branch secretary Kathy Smith who has once again led her members to victory.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resolution of this latest dispute follows the eight-month strike by 50 library staff working in the borough\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 14 libraries over such issues as pay progression and staff structuring which ended in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Shaun Noble<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite the union has hailed victory in the dispute at Bromley Central Library over late night openings with fewer staff. Talks this week with the employer social enterprise Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has led to an agreement that, instead of working up to four late nights a fortnight, library staff will work one late night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[277,148],"wps_subtitle":"Unite hails victory in Bromley library \u00e2\u20ac\u0098late night openings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 row","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143"}],"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=29143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29145,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143\/revisions\/29145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}