{"id":29992,"date":"2021-09-15T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T12:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29992"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:35:56","slug":"stand-up-and-stop-the-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29992","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stand up and stop the bullying&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite is today (Wednesday September 15) holding a national day of action as part of its campaign to end fire and rehire. The union&#8217;s general secretary, Sharon Graham, called the practice, in which employers sack their workers only to rehire them on lower pay and worse conditions, \u00e2\u20ac\u015ban abhorrence\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and \u00e2\u20ac\u015bone of the scandals of our age\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n<p>Unite members around the country will mobilise outside the offices of 30 Conservative MPs, the secretary of state for Scotland Alister Jack, the UK Parliament and a Tesco distribution centre to protest against the practice and demand action.<\/p>\n<p>The union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new general secretary Sharon Graham has pledged to build industrial strength to defeat employers using fire and rehire.<\/p>\n<p>Graham commented, \u00e2\u20ac\u015b\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Fire and Rehire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is an abhorrence. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a legal mechanism used by \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bad bosses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to slash labour costs under cover of the Covid pandemic. It is one of the scandals of our age.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe can win on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Fire and Rehire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and win more often, if we fully commit to focusing on building union strength and organisation at the workplace. That is what Unite intends to do.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>Unite is supporting Barry Gardiner MP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Private Members Bill to challenge Fire and Rehire and is calling on MPs of all parties to back it. The Bill is due its second reading on October 22 under the title of Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMPs from every political party and every corner of the country are saying that Fire and Rehire is wrong,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Barry Gardiner MP.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBullying and intimidation is not the way forward if we want decent employment and a productive economy. Next month my colleagues in parliament have a chance to stand up and stop the bullying.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Shaun Noble<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pic by Mark Thomas\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite is today (Wednesday September 15) holding a national day of action as part of its campaign to end fire and rehire. The union&#8217;s general secretary, Sharon Graham, called the practice, in which employers sack their workers only to rehire them on lower pay and worse conditions, \u00e2\u20ac\u015ban abhorrence\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and \u00e2\u20ac\u015bone of the scandals of our age\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1207],"tags":[1409,210],"wps_subtitle":"Unite launches national day of action to end abhorrent \u00e2\u20ac\u0098fire and rehire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29992"}],"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=29992"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30000,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29992\/revisions\/30000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}