{"id":812,"date":"2011-09-14T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lasunison.sc12.co.uk\/eblog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2011-09-14T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:04:56","slug":"pensions-crunch-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Pensions &#8211; Crunch Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are heading for national\u00c2\u00a0industrial action in defence of our pensions if no acceptable agreement is made with this Coalition Government. Next week is Crunch Time!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, made a speech at the Trade Union Congress in\u00c2\u00a0London this morning\u00c2\u00a0(Wednesday 14th September 2011)\u00c2\u00a0putting the Government and 9000 employers on notice <a title=\"Unison Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unison.org.uk\">http:\/\/www.unison.org.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a call to arms! Stand up for our pension rights &#8211; or lose them!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The UNISON Health Executive will meet on Wednesday 21st September 2011 to vote on whether to move to an industrial action ballot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The UNISON National Ambulance Sector will meet very soon afterwards to agree the role of ambulance members within any industrial action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These are tough times. We have to stand together and stand firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I will update LAS UNISON members next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____________________<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Information of all issues can be found elsewhere on our website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>___________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If \u00c2\u00a0you are reading this, work for the London Ambulance Service or are eligible to join,\u00c2\u00a0and are not yet a member of UNISON Join Today!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>I Am Frontline You Are Frontline We Are All Frontline<\/strong><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We are stronger together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are heading for national\u00c2\u00a0industrial action in defence of our pensions if no acceptable agreement is made with this Coalition Government. Next week is Crunch Time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-unison-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsblog.lasunison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}