{"id":8893,"date":"2016-06-02T17:22:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2016-06-02T17:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:22:05","slug":"bhs-collapse-fall-out-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=8893","title":{"rendered":"BHS collapse fall-out fears"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reassurances about job security are being urgently sought as hundreds of DHL drivers and warehouse staff, who deliver goods to BHS stores, face \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a very worrying time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 following the final collapse of the high street stalwart.<\/p>\n

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Unite is seeking assurances about the future employment prospects for 60 drivers and about 300 warehouse workers, employed by the logistics company DHL which supplied the 163 chain stores on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

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The majority of Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members are based at Atherstone, near Coventry.<\/p>\n

Unite national officer for road transport Matt Draper today (June 2) called for \u00e2\u20ac\u0098urgent talks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with DHL management to clarify the situation and what impact it may have on members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is seeking urgent talks with the DHL management now that the worst case scenario for BHS has occurred with the administrators failing to find a buyer for the 88-year-old high street chain,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Draper said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is devastating news for the 11,000 BHS workers whose jobs are at risk. It is also a worrying and uncertain time for our members employed by DHL.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will be seeking immediate talks with the DHL management as to what the collapse of BHS will mean for our members supplying the BHS stores,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will be seeking assurances about job security and possible redeployment onto other DHL contracts.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite and its regional officers want to work constructively with the DHL management to chart a way through the current situation, which is not of DHL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s making.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBHS appears to have been used as a milch cow for the forces of rapacious international capitalism,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Draper argued. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThose responsible need to be held to account at the court of public opinion for their actions that have had such woeful consequences for the BHS workforce and its pensioners.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is time the government cracked down on situations where hundreds of millions of pounds in dividends can be quite legally siphoned off, while the pension deficit is allowed to balloon,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he went on to say.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is more than 40 years since Tory prime minister Ted Heath lashed out at \u00e2\u20ac\u0098the unacceptable face of capitalism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a sense of d\u0102\u00a9j\u0102\u00a0 vu hangs over the corporate corpse of BHS today.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unite has about 20 members working directly for BHS and the union has already written to them offering maximum support on an individual basis.<\/p>\n

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BHS will now be wound down and all BHS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shops will close and be sold off to other retailers. Administrator Duff & Phelps said that 8,000 permanent jobs are likely to be lost and another 3,000 not directly employed by BHS are also at risk.<\/p>\n

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@ShaunSearsNoble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reassurances about job security are being urgently sought as hundreds of DHL drivers and warehouse staff, who deliver goods to BHS stores, face \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a very worrying time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 following the final collapse of the high street stalwart.   Unite is seeking assurances about the future employment prospects for 60 drivers and about 300 warehouse workers, employed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[522],"wps_subtitle":"Urgent reassurances sought for DHL drivers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893"}],"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=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8894,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions\/8894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}