{"id":5324,"date":"2015-08-24T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2015-08-24T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:41:47","slug":"teetering-on-edge-of-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5324","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Teetering on edge of abyss&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers from nine sub-contracting companies will be staging a wave of industrial action in the escalating dispute at Sellafield in Cumbria to improve health and safety and productivity at the nuclear facility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Construction workers involved in the decommissioning and renewal project at the site are angry at the refusal by Sellafield Ltd and the 14-strong group of sub-contractor companies to facilitate a full-time union convenor on the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite members\u00c2\u00a0working for Balfour Beatty Engineering Construction Services; Cape Industrial Services; Focus Scaffolding; Hertel UK; Interservice Industrial Services; Jacobs Stobbarts; Meldrum Ltd; Mitie Facilities Services (also known as OneFM) and PPS Electrical will be imposing an overtime ban and working to rule from Thursday August 27.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers at all the companies, except Balfour Beatty, will also be striking between 05:30 and 08:00 on September 1, 9 and 16\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0followed by a 24 hour stoppage starting at 00:01 on September 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite regional secretary for the north west Mick Whitley said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe bully boy tactics by the sub-contractors are still continuing as our members raise legitimate concerns about health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe shop stewards have agreed a future programme of industrial action in response to the intransigence of the various employers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite has repeatedly called for meaningful talks, but they have been rebuffed at every stage, and our members have no alternative but to take industrial action, including a day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strike on 23 September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe continuing attitude of the bosses underlines the draconian attitude of the contractors at Sellafield and means that industrial relations are now teetering on the edge of the abyss.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ballots are also being held at four other sub-contractors: Amec Foster Wheeler; Doosan Babcock; Hargreaves; and PC Richardson &amp; Co for industrial action on the health and safety issues. The ballots close on Wednesday August 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers from nine sub-contracting companies will be staging a wave of industrial action in the escalating dispute at Sellafield in Cumbria to improve health and safety and productivity at the nuclear facility. &nbsp; Construction workers involved in the decommissioning and renewal project at the site are angry at the refusal by Sellafield Ltd and the [&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":[54,275],"wps_subtitle":"Stoppages as Sellafield health and safety dispute escalates ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324"}],"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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5326,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}