{"id":10135,"date":"2016-10-06T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2016-10-07T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:38:20","slug":"out-of-the-blue-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10135","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Out of the blue&#8217; job losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The threat to 600 manufacturing jobs at OneSubsea, the Leeds oil and gas engineering firm, reinforces the need for a strong industrial strategy to protect such skilled jobs, Unite said yesterday (October 5).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said the news that the Houston-based multinational wanted to shed 600 of its 900-strong workforce by the end of 2017 had come \u00e2\u20ac\u0098out of the blue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. The company makes large-scale infrastructure for the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The union said that the company had blamed the downturn in the oil price which, in turn, had adversely impacted on oil exploration for the proposed job losses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite, which has 300 production members at the firm, said that it had an initial meeting with management today and more meetings were scheduled for next week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is appalling news that came out of the blue,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Chris Daly. &#8220;We knew that there was a downturn in the oil price, but we had no inkling about the scale of such job losses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a devastating blow for the workers and their families and, more widely, it will have an adverse effect on the Yorkshire economy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c these are skilled jobs that we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to lose as a manufacturing nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis sad news reinforces the case that the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much vaunted industrial strategy really needs to develop teeth quickly to protect such prized manufacturing jobs,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s goal in the days and weeks ahead is to make the case to mitigate the job losses envisaged at OneSubcea and offer our members the maximum support at this difficult and worrying time.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite understands that while manufacturing will cease at the end of 2017, 300 other staff will remain to provide office support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat to 600 manufacturing jobs at OneSubsea, the Leeds oil and gas engineering firm, reinforces the need for a strong industrial strategy to protect such skilled jobs, Unite said yesterday (October 5). &nbsp; Unite said the news that the Houston-based multinational wanted to shed 600 of its 900-strong workforce by the end of 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126,213],"wps_subtitle":"Engineering jobs cull shows need for industrial strategy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135"}],"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=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10136,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions\/10136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}