{"id":4327,"date":"2015-06-01T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2015-06-01T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T14:21:08","slug":"uplifting-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4327","title":{"rendered":"Uplifting success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The dispute over a tracker device in the vehicles of employees working at the Finnish-owned lift firm Kone has been successfully settled today (June 1).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs a result, the two-week strike by 300 engineering service workers, which started last Wednesday will be called off from 06.00 tomorrow (June 2).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite had said that the tracker system, known as VAMS, was an unreliable method for measuring workloads. As UniteLive reported in April, one driver was alleged to have travelled 1,000 miles in one day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c without refuelling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHowever, the agreement, hammered out under the auspices of the conciliation service, Acas now has \u00e2\u20ac\u0098loads of safeguards\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in relation to the use of VAMS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are pleased to say that we have negotiated a comprehensive settlement, a new framework document, with the company that provides loads of safeguards for our members,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite national officer Linda McCulloch. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs a result, they will be returning to work tomorrow morning.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe agreement provides mechanisms that will ensure that VAMS accurately records and measures the workloads of the employees,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a successful outcome that could have only been achieved by the 100 per cent solidarity shown by our members during the course of this dispute.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe main Kone sites are at Chertsey in Surrey, Gateshead, Glasgow, Keighley in Yorkshire and Warrington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dispute over a tracker device in the vehicles of employees working at the Finnish-owned lift firm Kone has been successfully settled today (June 1). &nbsp; As a result, the two-week strike by 300 engineering service workers, which started last Wednesday will be called off from 06.00 tomorrow (June 2). &nbsp; Unite had said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[311,88],"wps_subtitle":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Spy in the cab\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dispute with lift firm Kone settled ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327"}],"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=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}