{"id":11188,"date":"2017-01-23T12:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11188"},"modified":"2017-01-23T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:44:58","slug":"needless-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11188","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Needless&#8217; job losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Proposals by Honeywell to close an award winning site in Chesterfield with the loss of 66 jobs were branded as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098needless\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098short sighted\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Unite today (January 23).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nA 30 day consultation began today over the plans, which could see Honeywell end over 50 years of manufacturing at the site and move the manufacture of controls for gas pipelines to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nCalling on the company to change its plans and invest in its award winning workforce, Unite said it would be pressing the company to look at alternatives, including finding alternative sites in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese needless and short sighted proposals from Honeywell will be viewed with a sense of betrayal by an award winning workforce,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0said\u00c2\u00a0Unite regional officer Katie Whittam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs well as bringing the shutters down on over 50 years of manufacturing heritage at the site, it will see decent much needed jobs being stripped from the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOver the coming days we will be pressing Honeywell to think again and repay the loyalty of its hard working staff, by investing rather than axing its Chesterfield workforce.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals by Honeywell to close an award winning site in Chesterfield with the loss of 66 jobs were branded as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098needless\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098short sighted\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Unite today (January 23). &nbsp; A 30 day consultation began today over the plans, which could see Honeywell end over 50 years of manufacturing at the site and move the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126,55],"wps_subtitle":"Unite condemns proposed Honeywell site closure","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188"}],"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=11188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11194,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions\/11194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}