{"id":3055,"date":"2015-02-13T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2015-02-13T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:44:03","slug":"standing-shoulder-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"Standing shoulder to shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers at the Defence Support Group (DSG) have overwhelmingly accepted a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098significantly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 improved pay offer drawing to a close a long running dispute at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) facility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite backed the revised pay offer of 1 per cent plus a \u00c2\u01411,250 bonus by 91 per cent in a ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe pay deal, representing a 66 per cent increase on what was on the table before the dispute, followed 16 days of strike action.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis significantly improved pay deal would not have been possible without the resolve of members who were determined to get a just and fair deal,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite national officer Mike McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt represents a significant increase on what was originally on offer and shows what can be achieved when workers stand shoulder to shoulder,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe trust that Babcock, who take over the running of the DSG, will continue to recognise the vital role our members play in supporting our armed forces by working positively with Unite.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe DSG maintains, repairs and overhauls military equipment for the MoD at Bovington (Dorset), Catterick (North Yorkshire), Colchester, Donnington (Shropshire), Stirling and Warminster (Wiltshire).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at the Defence Support Group (DSG) have overwhelmingly accepted a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098significantly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 improved pay offer drawing to a close a long running dispute at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) facility. &nbsp; Unite backed the revised pay offer of 1 per cent plus a \u00c2\u01411,250 bonus by 91 per cent in a ballot. &nbsp; The pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[144,156],"wps_subtitle":"MoD workers accept significantly improved pay offer ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}