{"id":7941,"date":"2016-03-02T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2016-03-02T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:16:26","slug":"rotten-apple-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7941","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Rotten apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>More bad news for Shepton Mallet Cider Mill came today (March 2) as C&amp;C Group announced its first 40 redundancies, with workers&#8217; last day set for May 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite regional coordinating officer Steve Preddy said it was \u00e2\u20ac\u015bvery sad, but not unexpected, news.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe employees and their families are devastated, as you would expect,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut it is also a grim day for the town of Shepton Mallet and its historic and proud links to the art of cider making, stretching back to 1770.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8220;The fact that a third of the workforce has now been given notice at the Shepton Mallet Cider Mill just reinforces the need for the management to accelerate their efforts to find a buyer for the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAny such sale would be greatly assisted if the company agreed to sell its well-known brands, such as Blackthorn and Olde English, as well as the site itself,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Preddy went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe brands and the site would make a very attractive package for a potential buyer at this already profitable site with an enthusiastic and dedicated workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe owners, the Dublin-based C&amp;C Group, are proving to be a rotten apple amongst employers.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bad news for Shepton Mallet Cider Mill came today (March 2) as C&amp;C Group announced its first 40 redundancies, with workers&#8217; last day set for May 25. &nbsp; Unite regional coordinating officer Steve Preddy said it was \u00e2\u20ac\u015bvery sad, but not unexpected, news.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe employees and their families are devastated, as you would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[487],"wps_subtitle":"First job losses at Shepton Mallet Cider Mill announced","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941"}],"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=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7942,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions\/7942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}