{"id":16955,"date":"2019-01-10T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:49","slug":"haetrae-sadia-water-heating-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16955","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hammer blow&#8217; for Norfolk economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The 200 job losses at water heating manufacturer Heatrae Sadia in Norwich is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a hammer blow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to Norfolk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy, Unite said today (January 10).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is very bad news for the local economy,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Steve Harley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite representatives are meeting with a senior executive of the parent company Baxi Heating UK today, when we will be asking for the figures to justify the business rationale for this hammer blow decision,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will be strongly questioning why the production of the water cylinders and electric water heaters would be moved to Preston,&#8221; Harley went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are also seeking a timetable for the consultation period during which time we will be exploring what can be done to mitigate the job losses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis announcement follows on from the news that Britivic and Unilever, producers of the iconic Colman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mustard, are closing their sites in Norwich by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bNorwich can ill-afford to lose more highly skilled manufacturing jobs, especially with the uncertainly over Brexit and given that Norfolk is a predominately rural county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 200 job losses at water heating manufacturer Heatrae Sadia in Norwich is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a hammer blow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to Norfolk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy, Unite said today (January 10). &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is very bad news for the local economy,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Steve Harley. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite representatives are meeting with a senior executive of the parent company Baxi Heating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126],"wps_subtitle":"Heatrae Sadia announces 200 job losses at Norwich water heating plant","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955"}],"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=16955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25640,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16955\/revisions\/25640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}