{"id":3214,"date":"2015-03-06T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2015-03-06T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:18:09","slug":"taken-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3214","title":{"rendered":"Taken for granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members working for Parcelforce overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer that management went ahead with, prompting the union today (March 6) to warn the courier company that it risks inciting industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe bosses of Parcelforce, a subsidiary of the Royal Mail, implemented a paltry 2.8 per cent pay rise backdated to July 2014, following a pay review.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite CMA officer Brian Scott argued that the Parcelforce members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay is deeply unfair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite members at Parcelforce deserve and expect the same as their colleagues in Royal Mail and that has just not happened,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis demonstrates a contempt for workers and Unite members.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe now have no alternative but to seek a ballot for a work to rule,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no doubt this action will have a significant impact on Parcelforce customers.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nScott asserted that the courier workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hard work has gone unrewarded for far too long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite members work more than their normal hours each day and they do so as a commitment to the company and to its customers,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members now feel they are being taken for granted and, indeed, bullied by the management to accept this deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe asked the company for an urgent meeting once members decided to throw out the pay offer, but they did not even bother to respond before rushing to enforce this paltry pay offer,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe call on bosses to get round the negotiating table with us now in order to resolve this dispute and get a fair deal for hardworking employees who deliver for this company day-in and day-out.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members working for Parcelforce overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer that management went ahead with, prompting the union today (March 6) to warn the courier company that it risks inciting industrial action. &nbsp; The bosses of Parcelforce, a subsidiary of the Royal Mail, implemented a paltry 2.8 per cent pay rise backdated to July 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[258,132],"wps_subtitle":"Hardworking Parcelforce members given paltry pay rise, sparking potential industrial action","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214"}],"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=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}