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This is a campaign page set up by workers furious at the victimisation and sacking of the elected USDAW shop steward and convener in IKEA Glasgow, RICHIE VENTON, and IKEA\u2019s attacks on workers\u2019 rights and conditions, including removal of wages from workers off sick with COVID-19..<\/p>\n
Richie has been singled out and sacked for standing up for the health, safety and lives of workers he represents, demanding safety measures and full average pay for all workers sick or self-isolating with the killer virus.<\/p>\n
He is the first trade unionist in Scotland to be sacked by employers in disputes over workers\u2019 safety from the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Since sacking him, IKEA have imposed even worse cutbacks, including on company sick benefit, putting far more workers on just \u00a395 Statutory Sick Pay, which could force some to continue working because of hardship, spreading the virus, endangering lives.<\/p>\n
This campaign is to reinstate Richie to his job and his elected union position; to win full average wages for all COVID-sick workers, in IKEA and every other workplace; and to stop employers making \u00a3billions in profit but endangering workers\u2019 lives by expecting them to survive on \u00a395-a-week Statutory Sick Pay.<\/p>\n
Add your voice and support to the demand that Ikea reinstate Richie Venton and reinstate sick workers\u2019 wages by signing the secure petition.<\/a> This is a campaign page set up by workers furious at the victimisation and sacking of the elected USDAW shop steward and convener in IKEA Glasgow, RICHIE VENTON, and IKEA\u2019s attacks on workers\u2019 rights and conditions, including removal of wages from workers off sick with COVID-19..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1852,1855,910],"tags":[8874],"class_list":["post-14896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-communists-organise","category-exploitation-and-emancipation","category-trade-unionism","tag-author-reinstate-richie-venton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":1828,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14896"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20251,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896\/revisions\/20251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nalso see:-
\nSTATEMENT FROM FINSBURY PARK BRANCH OF THE RMT IN SUPPORT OF STEVE HEDLEY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"