{"id":3122,"date":"2015-02-25T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2015-02-25T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:09:18","slug":"brutal-sackings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Brutal sackings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of workers were sacked yesterday (Tuesday 24) at the Aylesford Newsprint firm in Kent, only one day after the company announced it would be going into administration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite will be seeking legal advice after the abrupt sacking, which saw 234 employees go at the hands of administrators KPMG.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOnly 64 workers are being kept to help administrators in decommissioning the paper mill and other maintenance duties. Unite represents 150 members at the firm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite regional officer Tim Elliott vowed that the union would not back down in the face of administrators\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 heartless actions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t roll over when it comes to defending its members and we will be seeking legal advice following this harsh action delivered in honeyed words by the administrators,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Elliott said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe want a proper consultation period involving serious negotiations to save as many jobs as possible,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe closure of this plant will be a massive blow to the Kentish economy as it is one of the biggest employers in the area.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOwned by US investment holding company Martland Holdings for the last two years, the company produces more than 400,000 tonnes of recycled newsprint each year, some of which it has supplied to the main newspaper groups.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe firm recorded a turnover of \u00c2\u0141139m in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of workers were sacked yesterday (Tuesday 24) at the Aylesford Newsprint firm in Kent, only one day after the company announced it would be going into administration. &nbsp; Unite will be seeking legal advice after the abrupt sacking, which saw 234 employees go at the hands of administrators KPMG. &nbsp; Only 64 workers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126],"wps_subtitle":"Newsprint firm sacks more than 200 workers ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122"}],"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=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}