{"id":29721,"date":"2021-08-10T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29721"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:28:16","slug":"sweet-result-in-pay-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29721","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Sweet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 result in pay deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A wage dispute between domestic sugar producer British Sugar and its\u00c2\u00a0workers\u00c2\u00a0at factories across east England\u00c2\u00a0has ended after staff accepted a\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0098sweet pay deal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite said today (August 10).<\/p>\n<p>A strike ballot of 500 technicians,\u00c2\u00a0engineers and supply chain operatives\u00c2\u00a0at British Sugar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Newark, Wissington, Cantley\u00c2\u00a0and Bury St\u00c2\u00a0Edmunds factories has now been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The workers voted to accept an improved offer of a 3.5 per cent pay rise, following the rejection of a 2 per cent offer made by the company previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis sweet pay deal was achieved because our members stood firm in demanding a rise that reflected their hard work and dedication to British Sugar,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite regional officer Mark Plumb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is a prime example of what can be achieved through strong union organisation, which is why we urge workers looking to improve their pay and terms and conditions to join Unite and to get their colleagues to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite looks forward to working productively with British Sugar in the future for the best interests of our members, as the company continues to go from strength to strength,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Ryan Fletcher <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wage dispute between domestic sugar producer British Sugar and its\u00c2\u00a0workers\u00c2\u00a0at factories across east England\u00c2\u00a0has ended after staff accepted a\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0098sweet pay deal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite said today (August 10).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[489,714],"wps_subtitle":"Hundreds of British Sugar workers win thanks to Unite","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29721"}],"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=29721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29724,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29721\/revisions\/29724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}