{"id":10589,"date":"2016-11-15T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2016-11-15T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:51:20","slug":"reverse-austerity-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10589","title":{"rendered":"Reverse austerity call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner agreed with shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, today (November 15) when McDonnell urged the government to take concrete steps to bring shared prosperity to all, including an end to austerity, long-term investment to create secure, well-paid jobs as well as tax system reform, so the richest pay and the rest don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shoulder the burden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bImmediately reversing cuts to ESA and Universal Credit \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which have left a large swath of people who are already struggling thousands of pounds worse off each year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ending the public sector pay cap and raising the minimum wage should be priorities in next week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Autumn Statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe chancellor Phillip Hammond has already admitted that the austerity policies of the last Tory government have failed when he spoke of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098reset\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 last month. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now see what actions the government will take.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Steve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned next week for UNITElive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exclusive coverage of the Autumn Statement, when the chancellor will outline the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future economic plans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner agreed with shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, today (November 15) when McDonnell urged the government to take concrete steps to bring shared prosperity to all, including an end to austerity, long-term investment to create secure, well-paid jobs as well as tax system reform, so the richest pay and the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[76,631,486],"wps_subtitle":"Unite urges chancellor to take right action","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589"}],"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=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}