{"id":3057,"date":"2015-02-13T14:25:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2015-02-13T14:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:25:41","slug":"perseverance-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Members working for police forces in England and Wales have today (February 13) backed an improved pay offer in a ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nCivilian staff, including 999 call handlers, scene of crime officers, police community support officers and custody officers, accepted the revised pay offer of 2.2 per cent, or \u00c2\u0141400, whichever is greater, by 92 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe workers who have borne the brunt of the coalition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s police cuts had been offered a one per cent pay rise, but received an improved offer after a threatened strike in January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members play a vital role in protecting the public and have been at the sharp of the coalition government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s police cuts,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite national officer Fiona Farmer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bQuite rightly they viewed a one per cent pay rise as an insult which would do nothing to address poverty pay or tackle plummeting pay levels. It is testament to their resolve that we were able to achieve an improved pay offer,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGoing forward, we hope the employers will work with us to ensure we tackle poverty pay in our police forces and avoid the prospect of strike action in future years.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members working for police forces in England and Wales have today (February 13) backed an improved pay offer in a ballot. &nbsp; Civilian staff, including 999 call handlers, scene of crime officers, police community support officers and custody officers, accepted the revised pay offer of 2.2 per cent, or \u00c2\u0141400, whichever is greater, by 92 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[243,132],"wps_subtitle":"Civilian police force staff win improved pay offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057"}],"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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}