{"id":9453,"date":"2016-08-04T17:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2016-08-05T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T11:20:44","slug":"oil-strike-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9453","title":{"rendered":"Oil strike &#8211; latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Oil workers at Wood Group, members of Unite and RMT, took their first day of strike action as part of the latest 48-hour stoppage today (August 4) in an ongoing dispute over a massive cut in pay and allowances of up to 30 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest two-day strike action follows a previous 24-hour stoppage last week after management has continued to refuse further talks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s action went as well as it could go,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer John Boland. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWorkers are stationed in their designated areas on the platforms and will be sequestered there during tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s action.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have had as yet no further indications of continued talks from management, which is extremely disappointing,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bNext week we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hoping to find a way to take this forward.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Striking workers (pictured above) stood firm today, and held up signs showing how much they stand to lose in pay and allowances under management proposals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on UniteLive for the latest on the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil workers at Wood Group, members of Unite and RMT, took their first day of strike action as part of the latest 48-hour stoppage today (August 4) in an ongoing dispute over a massive cut in pay and allowances of up to 30 per cent. &nbsp; The latest two-day strike action follows a previous 24-hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[551,214,213],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453"}],"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=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9458,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions\/9458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}