{"id":4624,"date":"2015-07-02T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2015-07-02T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T09:14:46","slug":"living-wage-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4624","title":{"rendered":"Living Wage demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A 12-hour strike by Croydon drivers and escorts, who transport clients such as disabled children, will be staged tomorrow (July 3) against the tight-fisted Impact Group which refuses to pay the London \u00e2\u20ac\u0098living wage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (LLW).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe 16 Unite members will strike from noon until midnight tomorrow in their long-running campaign for the LLW of \u00c2\u01419.15 an hour. They have already taken three days of strike action in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite points out that Croydon council, which awarded the contract to the Impact Group, is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098living wage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 employer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and therefore this should also apply to private contractors working for the local authority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis has been a long and bitter campaign to win the London \u00e2\u20ac\u0098living wage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which this tight-fisted Scrooge employer refuses to pay,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Onay Kasab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bImpact is adamantly refusing to talk with Unite or even go for talks under the auspices of the conciliation service, Acas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe made a pay claim to the employer asking for the LLW and an equivalent pay rise for those already on the LLW,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Kasab added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe also asked for backdating to last year as staff have not had a pay increase for at least three years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe employer has so far refused to negotiate. Instead, senior managers have turned up on previous strike days and buy breakfast for strike breakers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCroydon council is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098living wage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 employer, so the rate should apply to all its contractors.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe dispute comes against the backdrop of a Fair Deal For Local Government campaign by Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s London and Eastern region which has almost 300,000 members. The campaign is aimed against privatisation and austerity in local government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe campaign is a set of proposals that Unite is putting to councils in the region. It is a procurement strategy to ensure that quality services are maintained and that there is no \u00e2\u20ac\u0098race to the bottom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for pay and conditions post any transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFind out more about the campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/uniteforpublicservices.org\/campaigning.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-hour strike by Croydon drivers and escorts, who transport clients such as disabled children, will be staged tomorrow (July 3) against the tight-fisted Impact Group which refuses to pay the London \u00e2\u20ac\u0098living wage\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (LLW). &nbsp; The 16 Unite members will strike from noon until midnight tomorrow in their long-running campaign for the LLW of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[128,84],"wps_subtitle":"Strike to impact on Croydon \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Scrooge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 employer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624"}],"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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}