{"id":18487,"date":"2019-07-22T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:01","slug":"no-deal-manufacturing-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18487","title":{"rendered":"‘Our jobs matter’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Our jobs and our communities matter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 will be the message from Unite manufacturing shop stewards from across the UK when they travel to parliament on Wednesday (July 24) to meet MPs and demand that the new prime minister takes a no deal Brexit off the table.<\/p>\n

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Unite representatives from major manufacturers including Airbus, British Steel, BMW, GKN, Jaguar Land Rover and Rolls-Royce will unfurl a big banner at 11am opposite the Houses of Parliament at Old Palace Yard in a photo call. They will then enter parliament to brief MPs on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098catastrophic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 impact a no deal Brexit will have on the livelihoods of the members they represent and the industries in which they work.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photo call and briefing for MPs comes as just 45 per cent of Unite reps believe their employer has Brexit contingencies in place. This initial finding is part of an ongoing survey alongside a series of in-depth interviews with Unite workplace representatives working across all of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s industrial sectors.<\/p>\n

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The full findings are expected to be published in September, but also initially point to a significant number of employers exploiting Brexit uncertainty. Thirty four per cent of reps taking part in the research report employers using Brexit to either delay or reduce pay deals, hire agency workers over full-time employment or remove reps\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 involvement in European works councils.<\/p>\n

Commenting Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing Steve Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bA no deal Brexit will be an economic and personal catastrophe for hundreds of thousands of skilled manufacturing workers, their families and communities.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt will compound the Brexit uncertainty that has already gripped UK manufacturing and throw synchronised, \u00e2\u20ac\u0098just in time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 processes that our major manufacturers rely on into turmoil. UK workers will be left at a competitive disadvantage and working with both hands behind their back.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe destruction of our manufacturing sector may be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098price worth paying\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the pursuit of an ideologically pure Brexit for \u00e2\u20ac\u0098hard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 brexiteers,\u00c2\u00a0 or a gamble the new prime minister thinks worth playing in a game of Brexit roulette,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut it is real jobs and real livelihoods at stake, along with the future of sectors such as steel making, car manufacturing, chemicals, paper and aerospace.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWith Unite reps across the economy reporting fewer than half of their companies have made contingencies for Brexit and a significant portion reporting firms trying to exploit Brexit uncertainty at the expense of their workforces, it is time for the Brexit chaos to come to an end,” Turner went on to say.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe new prime minister needs to come to places like Southampton where the port employs 15,000 people and handles 60 per cent of car components in addition to over two million containers every year,\u00c2\u00a0and tell them how his plan secures their jobs. Come to the communities in the Midlands that depend on Jaguar Land Rover, Toyota and Rolls-Royce for work, or British Steel in Scunthorpe and look these people in the eye and tell them he will not send them to the dole queue.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe message from our manufacturing shop stewards who represent over half a million workers is clear. Our jobs and our communities matter, the new prime minister must take no deal off the table and get a deal with the European Union that secures frictionless trade and tariff free access with Europe.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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The manufacturing lobby of Parliament on Wednesday, July 24 will begin at 11am\u00c2\u00a0opposite the Houses of Parliament, Old Palace Yard, SW1A 3BE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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