{"id":6283,"date":"2015-10-14T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2015-10-14T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:38:39","slug":"roar-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6283","title":{"rendered":"Roar justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Paws\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the lion, Unite East Midlands Community mascot, today (Wednesday October 15) had his first outing at Chesterfield magistrates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He joined campaigners highlighting Sports Direct\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shameful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 treatment of workers as criminal proceedings start against David Forsey, the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bPaws has been highlighting the sense of injustice that Sports Direct workers feel,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said David Condliffe, Unite community coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company is famous for its zero hours contracts and Dickensian treatment of staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The charges Forsey faces relate to an offence contrary to section 194 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Warehouse staff in Scotland were given just 15 minutes notice that they were losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pride of Unite<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bPaws has proved really popular and was well received by the public today,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said David.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paws the lion, Unite Community and industrial members were joined by members of the public who chanted, \u00e2\u20ac\u0098who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to roar with Paws against injustice\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe even signed up two more Community members off the back of the protest,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added David.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has launched an <a href=\"https:\/\/campaign.goingtowork.org.uk\/petitions\/decent-work-for-all-sports-direct-workers?source=unitewebsite\">online petition<\/a> calling for an end to \u00e2\u20ac\u0098draconian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 working practices and an end to Sports Direct\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reliance on zero hours contracts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow the lion<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Follow Paws on twitter as he travels the county fighting injustice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paws4unite?lang=en-gb\">@paws4unite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Paws\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the lion, Unite East Midlands Community mascot, today (Wednesday October 15) had his first outing at Chesterfield magistrates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 court. &nbsp; He joined campaigners highlighting Sports Direct\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098shameful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 treatment of workers as criminal proceedings start against David Forsey, the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bPaws has been highlighting the sense of injustice that Sports Direct workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[422,421,388],"wps_subtitle":"Unite mascot joins Sports Direct protest","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283"}],"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=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6286,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}