{"id":4612,"date":"2015-07-01T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2015-07-01T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:47:52","slug":"were-not-in-this-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4612","title":{"rendered":"We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not in this together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Staff at Lloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s banking group (LBG) have been rewarded for their loyalty and struggling to bring the bank back into profit with an announcement of 700 job cuts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The news, which comes a week after senior executives awarded themselves millions in bonuses, exposes the bank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s myth that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all in this together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s senior management claim that the bank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recovery \u00e2\u20ac\u0098helps Britain prosper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and that the interests of staff, customers and shareholders are all aligned,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer for finance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Wednesday July 1) announcement that they intend to axe 700 more jobs after senior executives received \u00c2\u01412m in bonuses exposes this claim as a myth,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Rob. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unite is demanding that all impacted workers are offered meaningful and realistic job alternatives within the Group.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThose at the top have rewarded themselves for the Group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rising share prices, while once again the staff who have worked hard for that success receive all the pain and little of the profits,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Rob.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LBG have said they will release more details throughout July. The 700 job cuts impact staff across the bank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s divisions including \u00e2\u20ac\u201c retail, group operations, consumer finance, commercial banking and a number of risk, finance and HR roles.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite opposes all job losses and demands that the senior management guarantee that all staff affected by this latest round of cuts are offered genuine and realistic alternative job options within LBG,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Rob.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at Lloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s banking group (LBG) have been rewarded for their loyalty and struggling to bring the bank back into profit with an announcement of 700 job cuts. \u00c2\u00a0 The news, which comes a week after senior executives awarded themselves millions in bonuses, exposes the bank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s myth that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all in this together. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u015bLloyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"700 more jobs axed while management take home millions in bonuses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612"}],"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=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}