{"id":1163,"date":"2014-09-08T15:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:31:57","slug":"tackle-skills-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Tackle skills shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>During the education debate Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke spoke of the post-16 education system that is failing young people today and urged delegates to build a long-term plan to tackle the skills shortage problem we are faced with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI second this motion to highlight the need for a new skills eco-system in post-16 education,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve allowed career services to disappear in schools, replaced with a focus on academia that has led to a skills shortage in manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI know of one automotive company who is begging people to stay on beyond retirement because they had not taken on any new apprentices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have to ensure that our campaign generates a skilled manufacturing workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have a long way to go, but let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s support the motion and give these young people a future.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Delegates voted unanimously to carry the motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the education debate Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke spoke of the post-16 education system that is failing young people today and urged delegates to build a long-term plan to tackle the skills shortage problem we are faced with. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI second this motion to highlight the need for a new skills eco-system in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"wps_subtitle":"New skills \u00e2\u20ac\u0098eco-system\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 call","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163"}],"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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}