{"id":9373,"date":"2016-07-26T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2016-07-26T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T14:47:34","slug":"blatant-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9373","title":{"rendered":"Blatant exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers at the Fawley oil refinery will stage a second 24-hour strike tomorrow (July 27) in the dispute that sees foreign workers being paid half that of UK workers at the Southampton site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About 20 specialist workers, employed by Italian company Nico Industrial Services Ltd, will strike from just after midnight tomorrow at the Esso refinery, after talks broke down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said that the Nico workers, mainly Bulgarians and Italians, are being paid about \u00c2\u014148 for a 10 hour-day, while the 270 other workers on the site, employed by other contractors, are on about \u00c2\u0141125-a-day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>British workers employed by Nico are also paid the \u00c2\u0141125-a-day rate. The effect of the strike will be to slow up the site\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refining process as the specialist striking workers clean out the catalyst converter tanks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have held talks with the management, but the bosses have dug their heels in, hence the second strike tomorrow,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Malcolm Bonnett.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is completely unacceptable that foreign workers are being paid half that of British workers, who are either working for Nico or for other contractors across the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are not going to stand by and allow this blatant exploitation to continue with a management hell-bent on a race to the bottom when it comes to wages,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis dispute is about trade union recognition so that our members working for Nico receive equality of pay and terms and conditions. This is a dispute about basic fairness in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnless the management comes to the table with genuine proposals to eradicate this pay inequality, further industrial action is very much on the cards.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at the Fawley oil refinery will stage a second 24-hour strike tomorrow (July 27) in the dispute that sees foreign workers being paid half that of UK workers at the Southampton site. &nbsp; About 20 specialist workers, employed by Italian company Nico Industrial Services Ltd, will strike from just after midnight tomorrow at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[213,162],"wps_subtitle":"Oil refinery strike over unequal pay for foreign workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373"}],"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=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}