{"id":14109,"date":"2017-12-07T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:17:01","slug":"ge-job-slash-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14109","title":{"rendered":"GE job slash threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite warned General Electric (GE) of cutting \u00e2\u20ac\u0098too far, too fast\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and demanded guarantees on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098no compulsory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 redundancies after the firm announced restructuring plans which put the future of 1,100 jobs in its UK power division at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Describing the news, which will primarily impact on the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rugby and Stafford sites, as a major blow to the Midlands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 economy, Unite vowed to fight to keep as many jobs as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGeneral Electric is in danger of cutting too far, too fast and leaving itself ill equipped to meet the challenges of the changing power generation market,&#8221; said Unite national officer Linda McCulloch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese proposals will be a shock for General Electric\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s loyal workforce and deal a major blow to the Midlands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 economy which will be deprived of highly skilled well paid jobs because of this announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOver the coming days and weeks Unite will be supporting our members and scrutinising the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business case as we fight to save as many jobs as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will also be seeking guarantees from General Electric that there will be no compulsory redundancies and that there will be redeployment opportunities for workers wishing to stay with the business.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite warned General Electric (GE) of cutting \u00e2\u20ac\u0098too far, too fast\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and demanded guarantees on \u00e2\u20ac\u0098no compulsory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 redundancies after the firm announced restructuring plans which put the future of 1,100 jobs in its UK power division at risk. &nbsp; Describing the news, which will primarily impact on the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rugby and Stafford sites, as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[54,263],"wps_subtitle":"Unite vows to fight for jobs ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109"}],"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=14109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14110,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions\/14110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}