{"id":15808,"date":"2018-07-27T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=15808"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:35","slug":"hard-brexit-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=15808","title":{"rendered":"‘Cliff edge’ Brexit warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government must avoid a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bcatastrophic\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 hard Brexit Unite has warned, after the Brexit secretary Dominic Raab admitted it was now preparing for no deal<\/a> to be reached.<\/p>\n

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A cliff edge Brexit would hit UK manufacturing particularly hard, said Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe want to see an agreement reached that provides for frictionless trade, a customs union and access to a single market. But there is a great deal of pessimism among manufacturing companies and there is no doubt companies are taking their own steps to prepare for a cliff edge.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Following the recent lobby of MPs by Unite shop stewards<\/a> and statements from Airbus, BMW, JLR and others opposing a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bhard Brexit<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, it was reported this week that if the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bjust in time\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 supply chain broke down Honda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s giant Swindon plant \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which receives 2m components a day through the free movement of goods \u00e2\u20ac\u201c would have to stockpile a minimum of nine days worth of components.<\/p>\n

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Burke said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being reported if there was no deal on a customs union Honda would need to erect a warehouse which would be the third largest building on earth.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, bosses from aerospace giant Airbus<\/a> said last week that the firm could lose \u00c2\u01411bn a week if a hard Brexit stops their \u00e2\u20ac\u015bjust in time\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 supply chain, including wings travelling for assembly from 4,000 UK suppliers that employ more than 100,000 staff.<\/p>\n

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Burke said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf there is no deal there are massive implications for our members in manufacturing<\/a>. Small and medium companies in the supply chain that rely on larger companies would be badly hit.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is not \u00e2\u20ac\u0098project fear\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just the reality of the situation.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Burke pointed out that manufacturing is \u00e2\u20ac\u015babsolutely interconnected and extremely complex\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe hard Brexiteers are saying that we can just disconnect from Europe and latch onto other trading partners in places like the US and South East Asia.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been no planning and no time scale mapped out. Suggesting we can cobble together trade deals with Trump in the USA, with Australia and New Zealand and 20 plus Pacific Rim countries as Liam Fox is suggesting is a farcical situation.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Burke said that Unite will defend members jobs and would not allow companies to simply move out of the UK because of Brexit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCompanies have a responsibility to our members and we will fight to ensure they uphold that responsibility. However we are not in that situation yet and we hope that we can avoid a cliff edge,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut for that to happen Theresa May must banish the cabal of hard right Brextremist MPs who do not care about manufacturing and who are holding her hostage. The UK must secure a deal that maintains frictionless trade with the EU, secures investment and protects decent jobs.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government must avoid a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bcatastrophic\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 hard Brexit Unite has warned, after the Brexit secretary Dominic Raab admitted it was now preparing for no deal to be reached.   A cliff edge Brexit would hit UK manufacturing particularly hard, said Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke.   He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe want to see an agreement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[230,486,386],"wps_subtitle":"Unite AGS: hard Brexit will \u00e2\u20ac\u0098badly hit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 manufacturing","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808"}],"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=15808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26017,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions\/26017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}