{"id":7303,"date":"2016-01-13T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T12:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7303"},"modified":"2016-01-13T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:45:00","slug":"sports-direct-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7303","title":{"rendered":"Sports Direct shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Last night (January 12) Unite Community members and Newcastle United fans pulled off a mighty stunt together in protest over Sports Directs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 shameful treatment of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fans unfurled a huge banner during the second half of the premiership match against Manchester United which simply read \u00e2\u20ac\u0098#Sports Direct Shame\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite would like to thank Newcastle fans for their support and solidarity with Sports Direct workers,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Luke Primarolo, Unite regional officer, who has been leading on the Sports Direct campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The stunt is another embarrassing blow to club owner and billionaire CEO of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, who is guilty of imposing Victorian style employment practices on his workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These include workers being monitored every minute of the working day, \u00e2\u20ac\u0098named and shamed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 over a tannoy system if their supervisor thinks they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not working hard enough, and body searched after every shift at Sports Direct\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shirebrook warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Questions over the retailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s practices have pushed Sports Direct shares towards a three-year low and have wiped about \u00c2\u01411bn from its value since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf Mr Ashley wants to start restoring consumer and investor confidence, he needs to address his Victorian style working practises,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Luke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn order to do this he simply needs to sit down and talk to Unite,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done so already please sign and share the <a href=\"https:\/\/campaign.goingtowork.org.uk\/petitions\/decent-work-for-all-sports-direct-workers\" target=\"_blank\">petition<\/a> to demand Sports Direct end low paid zero hours contracts now<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture by Owen Humphreys, Press Association images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night (January 12) Unite Community members and Newcastle United fans pulled off a mighty stunt together in protest over Sports Directs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 shameful treatment of its workforce. &nbsp; Fans unfurled a huge banner during the second half of the premiership match against Manchester United which simply read \u00e2\u20ac\u0098#Sports Direct Shame\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite would like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[388],"wps_subtitle":"Fans unfurl banner during match","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303"}],"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=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}