{"id":13388,"date":"2017-09-13T12:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=13388"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:50:04","slug":"end-corporate-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=13388","title":{"rendered":"‘End corporate bullying’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite has demanded that Boeing \u00e2\u20ac\u0098ends its corporate bullying\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the UK government stands up for manufacturing jobs after the company lodged claims of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098price dumping\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with the US Department of Commerce, in a case concerning Bombardier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cseries airliners.<\/p>\n

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If Boeing claims are upheld, Bombardier could face punitive fines and this would place at risk thousands of jobs at the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Belfast factory and could threaten the site\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very existence.<\/p>\n

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Boeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claims are a result of Bombardier having benefitted from state investment from Canada and from Invest NI, Northern Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economic development agency, all of which was lawful and legitimate. Unite is demanding that the UK government urgently clarifies the legality of the state funding that Bombardier raised.<\/p>\n

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Bombardier is the largest private sector employer in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the last day of the TUC Congress in Brighton today (September 13), Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke explained that at present thousands of workers at the Belfast factory \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about one in 4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are employed on CSeries production and in four years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 time, this number is set to rise to 60 per cent of jobs on the site.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese jobs are vital to the aerospace industry and manufacturing economy and sustain many times more in the wider supply chain in the UK and Ireland,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Burke said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat is needed is to end this corporate bullying by Boeing that is putting thousands of good jobs at risk,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBoeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempts to link this public investment to the allegation of unfair competition are unsustainable; indeed, in the case of the sale of planes to Delta airlines which has been raised, Boeing did not even make a bid.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Burke told Congress that UK unions were briefed on Monday on the threat posed by Boeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actions and are now in contact with the Machinists Union and the Steelworkers in the USA.<\/p>\n

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He said that they were told that Theresa May had a phone conversation with President Trump on the matter.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut it is our understanding that the President can have no input into this decision,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Burke noted.<\/p>\n

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He highlighted that the UK government is in fact the second largest purchaser of Boeing products, including the P8 marine surveillance aircraft and Apache helicopters estimated to be around \u00c2\u01414bn worth of work.<\/p>\n

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Concluding his speech intervening on a TUC report paragraph, Burke said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is demanding the Prime Minister and the government stand up for the workforce in Northern Ireland and our aerospace industry and to stand up for decent jobs.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bShe needs to tell President Trump, she will not stand by and watch Boeing threaten thousands of jobs.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unite has demanded that Boeing \u00e2\u20ac\u0098ends its corporate bullying\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the UK government stands up for manufacturing jobs after the company lodged claims of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098price dumping\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with the US Department of Commerce, in a case concerning Bombardier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cseries airliners.     If Boeing claims are upheld, Bombardier could face punitive fines and this would place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[519,55,219,561,792],"wps_subtitle":"PM urged to defend jobs after Boeing threatens Bombardier","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388"}],"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=13388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13389,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions\/13389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}