{"id":9444,"date":"2016-08-04T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T11:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T11:21:38","slug":"stop-the-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9444","title":{"rendered":"Stop the bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Bus drivers and engineers at Brighton and Hove buses and its subsidiary Metrobus in Crawley have overwhelmingly backed taking industrial action in a dispute over an increasingly \u00e2\u20ac\u0098draconian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 management style, which has led to accusations of bullying, intimidation and the use of covert surveillance by managers on workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The members of Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest union, Unite voted by 71.4 per cent in favour of strike action with 83.3 per cent backing industrial action short of a strike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once heralded as a model employer, matters deteriorated at Brighton and Hove buses after the introduction of a new hard line management team following the retirement of the previous managing director.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the company facing an exodus of bus drivers and engineers and a resulting deterioration in customer service, Unite urged bus managers to stop paying lip service to good industrial relations and commit to working with the union to change the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098culture of fear\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at the company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bPeople used to love working at Brighton and Hove buses and it used to be held up as local model of good employment,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Janet Henney.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis simply is not the case anymore with many of our members dreading going into work,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThey have had enough of being bullied, intimidated and spied on when on sick leave and want to see an end to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098draconian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 management style which has created a culture of fear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members take great pride in keeping Brighton, Hove and Crawley on the move, but as the overwhelming backing for industrial action shows, have reached the end of line,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Henney went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite urges senior management to stop paying lip service to good industrial relations and start making the firm the model employer it was once again. Otherwise our members will be left with little option, but to give up a day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pay and go on strike.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>@alextf75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bus drivers and engineers at Brighton and Hove buses and its subsidiary Metrobus in Crawley have overwhelmingly backed taking industrial action in a dispute over an increasingly \u00e2\u20ac\u0098draconian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 management style, which has led to accusations of bullying, intimidation and the use of covert surveillance by managers on workers. &nbsp; The members of Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest union, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[176,211,202],"wps_subtitle":"Bus strike against \u00e2\u20ac\u0098draconian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bosses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444"}],"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=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}