{"id":7264,"date":"2016-01-08T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:30:47","slug":"offshore-end-cuts-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7264","title":{"rendered":"Offshore: End cuts call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite has today (Friday January 8) repeated its call for the industry to end its year-long imposition of cuts after members in the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) agreement accepted improvements to their terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following a consultative ballot, OCA members, who provide critical maintenance across installations in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), voted to accept improved holiday entitlement and a joint review of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098three and three\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 equal time shift rotations by over 50 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The agreement ends a prolonged dispute which previously seen workers reject efforts by some OCA employers to impose cuts to jobs, terms and conditions without consultation following the slump in oil price.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis demonstrates that even in times of crisis the most effective way forward is for the industry to work with trade unions through proper consultation channels under a collective agreement,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Tommy Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat our oil and gas sector urgently requires now is a genuine co-operation between government, industry and the offshore trade unions to respond to this on-going crisis, alleviating the pressure on the industry while protecting employment rights,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is the only way we can begin to build a safe and sustained recovery for the UK offshore sector.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has today (Friday January 8) repeated its call for the industry to end its year-long imposition of cuts after members in the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) agreement accepted improvements to their terms and conditions. &nbsp; Following a consultative ballot, OCA members, who provide critical maintenance across installations in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[214],"wps_subtitle":"New agreement heralds way forward","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264"}],"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=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}