{"id":5123,"date":"2015-08-06T16:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5123"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:53:28","slug":"stop-end-to-check-off-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5123","title":{"rendered":"Stop end to check off threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail spoke today (August 6) on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s <i>World at One<\/i>programme in defence of check-off, a system by which union members have their dues automatically deducted from their salaries.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">Now check-off is under threat, as the government announced proposals to put an end to check-off for public sector workers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">The move would mean that public sector workers would have to switch to paying their union dues via direct debit instead of the simple check-off process, which has been in place for decades and is still embraced by the private sector, including such large companies as British Airways and Rolls-Royce.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\">Listen to Cartmail using the link below. The story about the attacks on check-off begins at 27.55<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owa.unitetheunion.org\/OWA\/redir.aspx?SURL=PRL1rUFpZ3OjvUUiiNQasloU-dloAktPWj0BG0Hdw_9vcL0Id57SCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AdwB3AHcALgBiAGIAYwAuAGMAbwAuAHUAawAvAHAAcgBvAGcAcgBhAG0AbQBlAHMALwBiADAANgA0AHgAZABwADMA&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.co.uk%2fprogrammes%2fb064xdp3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b064xdp3<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail spoke today (August 6) on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s World at Oneprogramme in defence of check-off, a system by which union members have their dues automatically deducted from their salaries. \u00c2\u00a0 Now check-off is under threat, as the government announced proposals to put an end to check-off for public sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[362,344],"wps_subtitle":"Unite AGS Gail Cartmail speaks out","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123"}],"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=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}