{"id":29549,"date":"2021-07-22T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29549"},"modified":"2021-07-22T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:36:32","slug":"petrochem-jobs-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29549","title":{"rendered":"Petrochem jobs to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Serious questions are being asked why Sabic, the biggest petrochemical company on Teesside, is adopting a policy of job losses and outsourcing of maintenance staff, while being an enthusiastic supporter of the proposed Freeport which, it is claimed, will create 18,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Unite has instigated a grievance procedure against Sabic, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Aramco petrochemicals giant, over the compulsory jobs losses of four production workers and one lab staff; and the TUPE transfer of about 40 more to two outsourced companies, R&amp;A Kay and Bilfinger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are asking why Sabic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s management is TUPE transferring a part of the business when the company has been a keen advocate of the Teesside Freeport and is intending to take an active role at the 4,500 acre site,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite regional officer Fazia Hussain-Brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhile it is boasting about \u00e2\u20ac\u0098green\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 energy investment and the creation of jobs, it is outsourcing through the back door \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it leaves a sour taste in the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members are shocked and angry at this announcement given that they went through a redundancy consultation process last year with a compulsory loss of jobs and there are workers who would still like to take voluntary redundancy &#8211; yet, we are again looking at five compulsory job losses.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>The collective grievance hearing will be held next week with the company wanting the transfer to be completed by the end of August \u00e2\u20ac\u201c however, Unite warned that a ballot could be on the cards for industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>Fazia Hussain-Brown added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bFrom Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long experience, the transferring of workers to outsourced companies often does not end well, with a salami slicing of pay and employment conditions over a period of time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we are determined that this won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen in this case and a ballot for industrial action remains a strong option.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>Teesside is one eight Freeports announced by chancellor Rishi Sunak and it is claimed that it will create 18,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Shaun Noble<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serious questions are being asked why Sabic, the biggest petrochemical company on Teesside, is adopting a policy of job losses and outsourcing of maintenance staff, while being an enthusiastic supporter of the proposed Freeport which, it is claimed, will create 18,000 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1589,1695,407],"wps_subtitle":"Questions asked over Teesside job losses as freeport boom looms\u00c2\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29549"}],"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=29549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29551,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29549\/revisions\/29551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}