{"id":3174,"date":"2015-03-03T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2015-03-03T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T17:21:48","slug":"pay-deal-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3174","title":{"rendered":"Pay deal victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers maintaining tens of thousands of miles of UK motorways secured a much improved pay deal today (March 3). The Unite members, working for Amey in four different depots in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire, accepted the two-year pay deal following the first day of an unprecedented week-long strike action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAmey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workers, who grit roads and maintain crash barriers, argued that they were not about to accept a pay deal that in actuality amounted to a real-terms pay cut.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe new deal put forward by management and accepted by members will include a 2.25 per cent increase in pay, backdated to April 1 of last year, as well as an additional 1.75 per cent increase in pay as of April 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe solidarity and determination of Unite members throughout this lengthy dispute meant we were successful in negotiating a two-year pay settlement that is acceptable to the majority of our members,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Richard Gates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThanks to the strong position we took and the arguments the union put forward Amey realised that workers have been hit hard in recent years over pay,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nGates went on to say that the workers were not about to accept a below-inflation pay offer, especially considering the fact that Amey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s directors saw their salaries hiked by 65 per cent in the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMake no mistake this is a victory and members are delighted,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Gates said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite members had staged a number of 24-hour strikes last month and began what would have been a week-long walkout yesterday \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Monday 2 March. That action has now been called off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers maintaining tens of thousands of miles of UK motorways secured a much improved pay deal today (March 3). The Unite members, working for Amey in four different depots in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire, accepted the two-year pay deal following the first day of an unprecedented week-long strike action. &nbsp; Amey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workers, who grit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[132],"wps_subtitle":"Highway maintenance workers call off week-long strike","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174"}],"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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}