{"id":9733,"date":"2016-09-09T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2016-09-11T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T14:13:25","slug":"from-uber-to-sports-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9733","title":{"rendered":"From Uber to Sports direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The fight to defend the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s industrial economy will be spearheaded by Unite at the Trades Union Congress when it gathers in Brighton from September 11 to 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taking part in key Congress debates on the European Union, the Conservatives\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 regressive Trade Union Act and the need for urgent support for the steel industry, Unite will be issuing a warning to employers and to government that they must not use the Brexit vote to roll back the rights and living standards of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The union will also lead the calls for a full debate on the introduction of a universal basic income as a means to address growing poverty among people in work caused by the fall in the real value of wages, attacks on in-work benefits, the growth of insecure work and the looming prospect of millions of present-day jobs disappearing through digitalisation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the Congress Fringe, Unite will be continuing the campaign for decent work and justice for workers at Sports Direct with a joint fringe with the GMB at 12:45pm, Monday, September 12, Regency Suite, Hilton Brighton Metropole, Kings Road BN1 2FU.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Titled <em>From Uber to Sports Direct<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>How trade unions can win the fight for decent work all<\/em>, speakers include: Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner;\u00c2\u00a0 GMB national secretary Justin Bowden; Daily Mirror Real Britain columnist Ross Wynne Jones ; Sophie Shaw of the Unite hotel workers branch; and shadow minister for trade unions and civil society Ian Lavery MP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on UNITElive from Sunday (September 11) for our full coverage of the Trades Union Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fight to defend the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s industrial economy will be spearheaded by Unite at the Trades Union Congress when it gathers in Brighton from September 11 to 14. &nbsp; Taking part in key Congress debates on the European Union, the Conservatives\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 regressive Trade Union Act and the need for urgent support for the steel industry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[388,585],"wps_subtitle":"Unite campaigns on jobs, rights and fighting poverty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733"}],"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=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9734,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions\/9734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}