{"id":5796,"date":"2015-09-17T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2015-09-17T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:23:15","slug":"paltry-pay-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Paltry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers at a Leeds printing plate firm are going on a 48-hour strike over a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098paltry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer from Sunday morning (September 20).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAbout 50 Unite members at AGFA Graphics, Coal Road, Seacroft will strike from 7am on Sunday until 7am on Tuesday (September 22).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe company had offered a one-off non-consolidated payment for the pay year April 2015 to April 2016 and then a 0.5 per cent rise. Both offers were roundly rejected by the workers, who voted by a margin of 62 per cent for strike action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel that the management has made any meaningful effort to engage in realistic pay talks, especially as the company is profitable,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Unite regional officer Chris Daly said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe current pay offer is paltry.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members have seen their pay packets eroded in real terms as there has been a pay freeze for at least two years, while their German counterparts working for the same company have received three per cent this year,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe would urge the firm to get around the table, under the auspices of the conciliation service Acas, for constructive talks to resolve this pay dispute.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe company, which employs about 100 people at the plant, makes printing plates for industrial printers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at a Leeds printing plate firm are going on a 48-hour strike over a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098paltry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer from Sunday morning (September 20). &nbsp; About 50 Unite members at AGFA Graphics, Coal Road, Seacroft will strike from 7am on Sunday until 7am on Tuesday (September 22). &nbsp; The company had offered a one-off non-consolidated payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[132],"wps_subtitle":"Workers at printing plate firm on two-day walkout","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796"}],"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=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}