{"id":22467,"date":"2020-07-02T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=22467"},"modified":"2020-07-03T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:12:30","slug":"pm-do-not-abandon-working-people-now-in-their-hour-of-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=22467","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098PM, do not abandon working\u00c2\u00a0people\u00c2\u00a0now in their hour of need\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 48 hours have seen a jobs bloodbath with over 12,000 lost.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, I was among the first to welcome the jobs retention scheme (JRS).\u00c2\u00a0 It was the right thing to do. But it\u00c2\u00a0should never be the last word in help for desperate workers.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, support sectors\u00c2\u00a0were promised by government back in March has not materialised.<\/p>\n<p>In aviation,\u00c2\u00a0aerospace,\u00c2\u00a0auto and\u00c2\u00a0hospitality,\u00c2\u00a0workers with first-class skills are not being engaged in a national effort to build this country back better than before this vicious virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Whatever it takes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to help UK workers through this crisis has been\u00c2\u00a0replaced with\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0098you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on your own, mate.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n<p>Across the Channel, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a different story.\u00c2\u00a0 Workers in Stuttgart, Madrid and Toulouse know that their government will\u00c2\u00a0keep them in employment.\u00c2\u00a0 They can breathe knowing that they can feed their families and do a decent day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson, why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you do the same for Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workers? \u00c2\u00a0Do one thing today, extend the JRS.<\/p>\n<p>That one action will help pull desperate businesses back from the brink and stop the tens of thousands of lost jobs now\u00c2\u00a0spiralling into\u00c2\u00a0a 1930s-style depression.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, it was the workers of this country who kept us going through this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>They deserve so much more than second-hand projects\u00c2\u00a0and loose change schemes.<\/p>\n<p>PM, it&#8217;s time to act like the Churchill you so admire.\u00c2\u00a0 Do not abandon working\u00c2\u00a0people\u00c2\u00a0now in their hour of need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<em>By Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary \u00c2\u00a0@LenMcCluskey <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This comment first appeared in the Daily Mirror, July 2 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 24\u00c2\u00a0hours have seen a jobs\u00c2\u00a0bloodbath with\u00c2\u00a0over 10,000 lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1308],"tags":[1205,1295,1330,160],"wps_subtitle":"After the last two days\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jobs blood bath, Unite GS Len McCluskey calls on Johnson to extend JRS\u00c2\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467"}],"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=22467"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22523,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467\/revisions\/22523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}