{"id":4675,"date":"2015-07-07T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2015-07-07T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:41:34","slug":"cabin-crew-gear-up-for-strike-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4675","title":{"rendered":"Cabin crew gear up for strike vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has urged easyJet bosses (July 6) to get around the table for proactive pay talks, as about 2,000 of their cabin crew gear up for a strike ballot later this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>easyJet management broke off talks with Unite on July 3. The company is seeking to impose a two per cent pay rise for cabin crew and 2.5 per cent for managers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ballot for strike action will open on Tuesday July 14 and close on Monday \u00c2\u00a0August 3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite pointed out \u00e2\u20ac\u0098the glaring pay disparity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 between the average \u00c2\u014125,000 salary for cabin crew and the massive \u00c2\u01416m plus pocketed by the chief executive Carolyn McCall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe would urge easyJet to drop its high-handed approach and go back into talks,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Unite regional officer Kevin Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCabin crew have worked hard to make easyJet a success enabling the company to record pre-tax profits in excess of half a billion pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAt the same time, directors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay has soared by over 18 per cent while the chief executive, Carolyn McCall has seen her pay rise to more than \u00c2\u01416m &#8211; over 240 times more than the average cabin crew. The disparity in pay is glaring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAll our members are asking for is a decent pay rise that reflects the important role they have played in making easyJet, a leading European short haul airline. We hope easyJet will reconsider its position and enter into meaningful talks.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is a quite considerable amount of time before the result of the strike ballot and plenty of opportunity for the management to come up with a fair pay offer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the ball is very much in their court.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite cabin crew operate from 11 UK bases: Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Liverpool, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Southend and Stansted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has urged easyJet bosses (July 6) to get around the table for proactive pay talks, as about 2,000 of their cabin crew gear up for a strike ballot later this month. &nbsp; easyJet management broke off talks with Unite on July 3. The company is seeking to impose a two per cent pay rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[133,88],"wps_subtitle":"easyJet: proactive pay talks yet to take off","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675"}],"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=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}