{"id":29393,"date":"2021-07-05T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29393"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:40:47","slug":"morrisons-takeover-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29393","title":{"rendered":"Morrisons &#8216;takeover stampede&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite, the union representing Morrisons workers, has called  for urgent talks with the supermarket amid the news that a US private equity consortium is making a move to purchase the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The union is warning that without &#8216;unbreakable guarantees&#8217; on jobs and conditions, it will not cooperate with any sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adrian Jones, Unite national officer for road transport, representing Morrisons&#8217; warehouse and distribution workers, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is now seeking urgent talks with Morrisons to protect our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs and conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t allow another takeover of a strong UK business see the workers trampled over as the boardroom and shareholders stampede towards their bonanzas,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMorrisons is unique among UK supermarkets in that is owns its supply chain, from the farm to the warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMorrisons workers have made this business strong and profitable &#8211; they deserve to have their dedication rewarded by the owners,&#8221; Jones continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will meet urgently with the management team to turn their promises that the workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs and terms will not be undermined into unbreakable guarantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOnly with such cast-iron guarantees can there be any hope of Unite and our members cooperating with this sale.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By UniteLive team<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite, the union representing Morrisons workers, has called for urgent talks with the supermarket amid the news that a US private equity consortium is making a move to purchase the business. The union is warning that without &#8216;unbreakable guarantees&#8217; on jobs and conditions, it will not cooperate with any sale. Adrian Jones, Unite national officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1474,690],"wps_subtitle":"Morrisons must give unbreakable guarantees on workers' jobs and pay in stampede for sale","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29393"}],"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=29393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29398,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29393\/revisions\/29398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}