{"id":7061,"date":"2015-12-10T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7061"},"modified":"2015-12-10T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:17:21","slug":"frozen-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7061","title":{"rendered":"Frozen out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite is seeking urgent discussions with management after workers at Bombardier in Northern Ireland overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer as part of cuts to the Belfast operation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members had been asked by the aircraft maker to accept a two-year pay freeze and work for an extra hour every Friday, but this was dismissed by nearly 90 per cent of those taking part in the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite negotiators were asked to ballot on a pay offer from management which would seek cuts to workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 terms and conditions and leave them dependent on a performance-related bonus for an improvement in their incomes,&#8221; said Unite regional coordinating officer Davy Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe union did not try to influence its members in regard to the offer but our representatives in the workforce presented it to them on the grounds outlined by management,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian-owned outfit, which employs 5,500 people in Northern Ireland, claims the company is facing \u00e2\u20ac\u015bserious financial crisis.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Unite is stressing the need speak to management with the \u00e2\u20ac\u015baim of making progress.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we recognise that Bombardier faces exceptional cash-flow pressures, the membership of Unite has exercised their democratic right in relation to this offer,&#8221; Thompson went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will now seek to engage with management in order to progress this matter further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite is seeking urgent discussions with management after workers at Bombardier in Northern Ireland overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer as part of cuts to the Belfast operation. &nbsp; Members had been asked by the aircraft maker to accept a two-year pay freeze and work for an extra hour every Friday, but this was dismissed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[136,122,219],"wps_subtitle":"Bombardier workers reject pay freeze offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7072,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions\/7072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}