{"id":6934,"date":"2015-11-24T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2015-11-24T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:27:00","slug":"tesco-xmas-disruption-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6934","title":{"rendered":"Tesco Xmas disruption threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite urged Tesco to revise a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098pitiful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer of 0 per cent for 2015 and 1.5 per cent for 2016 today (November 24) to avoid potential industrial action in the run up to Christmas in its distribution network.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over 700 drivers and warehouse staff at distribution hubs in Belfast and Doncaster will start to be balloted for strike action next week. The strike vote follows an overwhelming 91 per cent rejection of the pay offer across the three sites and comes as Tesco recently posted half yearly profits of \u00c2\u0141354m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The industrial action ballots close on Friday, December 11, and a vote in favour could see deliveries to Tesco stores in Yorkshire and Northern Ireland disrupted in the run up to Christmas with knock on effects felt across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members have been working very hard to get Tesco to the position where the company can announce such promising results and be confident that it has turned the corner of the challenges of recent years,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite national officer Adrian Jones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want favours from the company but we believe that the current offer is far below what it can afford and what our members deserve,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite members don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to disrupt anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Christmas shopping but without a proper pay increase thousands of workers will not be able to enjoy their own Christmas in the way they deserve,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Jones added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe urge Tesco to revise its pitiful pay offer and avoid potential industrial action in the run up to Christmas.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite urged Tesco to revise a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098pitiful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer of 0 per cent for 2015 and 1.5 per cent for 2016 today (November 24) to avoid potential industrial action in the run up to Christmas in its distribution network. &nbsp; Over 700 drivers and warehouse staff at distribution hubs in Belfast and Doncaster will start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[135,205],"wps_subtitle":"Supermarket urged to revise \u00e2\u20ac\u0098pitiful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pay offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934"}],"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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}