{"id":22108,"date":"2020-06-15T16:50:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=22108"},"modified":"2020-06-15T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:50:57","slug":"painful-blow-for-loyal-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=22108","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Painful blow for loyal workforce&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite has described the announcement that 1,100 agency workers at JLR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s factories will lose their jobs as more\u00c2\u00a0devastating news for the UK&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0automotive communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workers are employed by the agency Manpower and principally work on the car production line. The job losses are a result of a sharp decline in car sales as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is understood that there will be around 400 job losses at JLR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plant at Solihull with the remaining job losses spread over the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s other sites in the West Midlands and Merseyside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manpower will now seek to find other engagements for the workers but without success&nbsp;it will be required to make them redundant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite had successfully ensured that the affected workers were furloughed at the beginning of the pandemic but is concerned that the delay in a sector support package is propelling companies to shed workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is expected that the workers will leave JLR at the time of the summer shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite national officer Des Quinn said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a painful blow for a loyal workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGiven the unprecedented drop in demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic it was all but inevitable that job losses would be announced,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is another devastating blow for our auto sector and the communities that rely on them for jobs.\u00c2\u00a0 We urge the government to get on with delivering the urgently needed sector support package, as other countries such as France and Germany have done, so that we can stem the tide of redundancies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will ensure that the affected workers are fully represented and assisted during this difficult and stressful period. If workers are made redundant then Unite will ensure they receive everything they are legally entitled to.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>By Barckley Sumner<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite has described the announcement that 1,100 agency workers at JLR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s factories will lose their jobs as more\u00c2\u00a0devastating news for the UK&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0automotive communities. The workers are employed by the agency Manpower and principally work on the car production line. The job losses are a result of a sharp decline in car sales as a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[230,1295,212],"wps_subtitle":"JLR job losses another devastating blow for auto workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108"}],"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=22108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22110,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions\/22110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}