{"id":15273,"date":"2018-05-22T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=15273"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:44","slug":"15273-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=15273","title":{"rendered":"Jobs &#8216;car crash&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The environment secretary Michael Gove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambition to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 risks being a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098car crash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for jobs and skills, unless it is part of an industrial strategy that secures a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098just transition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to electric vehicles, Unite said today (May 22).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s launch of the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clean air strategy Unite national officer Des Quinn said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government must listen to the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car industry and its workers to avoid Michael Gove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambition of phasing out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 becoming a car crash for jobs and skills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clean air strategy needs to be developed \u00e2\u20ac\u0098hand in glove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with an industrial strategy that ensures a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098just transition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 from combustion engines to electric and secures our automotive industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world leading status for years to come,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government must step up and remove the barriers to UK investment and the mass take up of electric vehicles with massive investment in infrastructure and support for re-skilling and retooling to ensure no worker is left behind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite members already make some of the cleanest and most efficient engines in the world,&#8221; Quinn noted. &#8220;They want to ensure that the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s automotive sector is at the forefront of electric vehicle technology, but need government ministers to stop shooting from the hip and invest, so that they can hold their own against the likes of Germany, the United States, southern Asia and China.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/uploaded\/documents\/8135_Autonomous%20vehicle_Report_A4_Finalpress11-33875.pdf\">Unite&#8217;s electric vehicle report here.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environment secretary Michael Gove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambition to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 risks being a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098car crash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for jobs and skills, unless it is part of an industrial strategy that secures a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098just transition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to electric vehicles, Unite said today (May 22). &nbsp; Responding to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s launch of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[864,854,351],"wps_subtitle":"Gov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t clean air plans must have \u00e2\u20ac\u0098just transition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to electric vehicles","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26174,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions\/26174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}