{"id":29709,"date":"2021-08-09T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29709"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:00:37","slug":"end-union-busting-at-hs2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29709","title":{"rendered":"End union busting at HS2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite construction members staged a significant protest at outside the HS2 Skanska-Costain-Strabag Joint Venture site on Friday (August 6) over the consortium\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flouting of the HS2 agreement by not allowing union officials \u00e2\u20ac\u0098meaningful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 access to the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstration is the start of a long term campaign to stop the union-busting activities of companies like Skanska and Costain which are renowned for blacklisting union members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking from the demo, Unite national officer Jerry Swain explained why the protest was so significant and just what&#8217;s at stake 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=\"End union busting HS2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KLX-eHw60Ao?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>Film by Martin Scanlon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite construction members staged a significant protest at outside the HS2 Skanska-Costain-Strabag Joint Venture site on Friday (August 6) over the consortium\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flouting of the HS2 agreement by not allowing union officials \u00e2\u20ac\u0098meaningful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 access to the site. The demonstration is the start of a long term campaign to stop the union-busting activities of companies like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[167,1122,1464],"wps_subtitle":"Unite national officer Jerry Swain speaks from HS2 demo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709"}],"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=29709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29714,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709\/revisions\/29714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}