{"id":17639,"date":"2019-03-19T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17639"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:09","slug":"manufacturing-jobs-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17639","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing jobs crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite warned of a deepening jobs crisis in UK manufacturing as the latest jobs figures showed 24,000 jobs had been in lost in the sector in the six months June to December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes amid a slew of job loss announcements in the UK automotive sector and Honda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement that it plans to close its Swindon factory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite estimates that the closure could result in 3,500 direct jobs going and a further 12,000 in the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Separately the latest monthly GDP figures show that manufacturing output has now fallen for six consecutive months, which last happened in late 2008 and early 2009 at the time of the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite has called a march and rally through Swindon for\u00c2\u00a0March 30 to highlight the devastation on the community of the Honda closure.<br \/>\nCommenting Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing Steve Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bScratch the surface of these job figures and you see a jobs crisis in manufacturing which will only deepen further as the impact of recent announcements such as Honda, Jaguar Land Rover and Ford feed through.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government needs to wake up and shake off its complacency by delivering on its fine words about its industrial strategy with practical support and action for UK manufacturing and the car industry,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis must mean throwing its full weight behind the fight to persuade Honda to stay in the UK, in addition to properly supporting the transition to electric and alternative powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGovernment must also support wider manufacturing by buying UK steel for infrastructure projects and utilising the talents of UK manufacturing communities to build major assets such as the Royal Navy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solid support vessels here in the UK.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to join us for this Saturday&#8217;s march and rally to save Honda on March 30. <a href=\"https:\/\/unitetheunion.org\/campaigns\/save-honda-swindon\/\">Find out\u00c2\u00a0details here.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite warned of a deepening jobs crisis in UK manufacturing as the latest jobs figures showed 24,000 jobs had been in lost in the sector in the six months June to December 2018. &nbsp; The warning comes amid a slew of job loss announcements in the UK automotive sector and Honda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement that it plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[386,1119,55],"wps_subtitle":"Latest job figures show 24,000 manufacturing jobs gone in six months","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639"}],"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=17639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25424,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639\/revisions\/25424"}],"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=17639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}