{"id":11585,"date":"2017-02-27T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2017-02-28T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:47:10","slug":"defending-uk-car-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11585","title":{"rendered":"Defending UK car jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, will address representatives from the three Vauxhall plants today (February 27) on Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fight to defend thousands of UK car industry jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McCluskey is bringing together over 100 shop stewards from the Ellesmere Port, Luton and Toddington sites to appraise them of developments since General Motors announced its intention to dispose of its entire European operation, including its UK plants, in a sale to the PSA Group, makers of Peugeot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the meeting, taking place at the Ellesmere Port plant, Len McCluskey said,\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese have been very anxious days for Unite members since General Motors announced its desire to offload its European operations to the makers of Peugeot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat is why I am bringing together over 100 shop steward from across the three UK Vauxhall sites.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be their opportunity to express the views from the factory floor and for me to feedback to them on developments to date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis union has been working day and night to defend our plants,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I personally have met with the highest levels of both General Motors and Peugeot, and the UK government, to make it abundantly clear that UK jobs, plants and communities will not be sacrificed for any sale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWith General Motors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 share of the UK market at a high of 14 percent, and our plants recognised as the most productive in General Motors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 European stable, the business case for Vauxhall is clear for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI repeat, I will not allow Unite members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs &#8211; whether at the Vauxhall sites or across the supply chain \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to be put at risk.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on UNITElive for more updates as this story develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, will address representatives from the three Vauxhall plants today (February 27) on Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fight to defend thousands of UK car industry jobs. &nbsp; McCluskey is bringing together over 100 shop stewards from the Ellesmere Port, Luton and Toddington sites to appraise them of developments since General Motors announced its intention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[230,386,686],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS to address Vauxhall reps","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585"}],"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=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11587,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions\/11587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}