{"id":24069,"date":"2020-10-05T15:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=24069"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:14:48","slug":"thin-gruel-for-fearful-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=24069","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Thin gruel for fearful workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Responding to the speech made today (Monday October 5) by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Unite leader, Len McCluskey, dismissed it as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098thin gruel for fearful workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWarm words and sympathy do not put food on the table,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m afraid to say that when the country hungers for a hearty diet of jobs saving and creation,\u00c2\u00a0the chancellor has\u00c2\u00a0offered little more than thin gruel for fearful workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe country is braced for mass unemployment; what we want to hear is what the government is going to do to fend that off.\u00c2\u00a0 Where is the plan?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We need plans to stimulate growth of new sectors now, to nourish them so that they are in a position to provide\u00c2\u00a0jobs to those sectors devastated by the virus, and we need action to stop millions of people being tipped overnight into poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese are unique times with the gloomiest economic outlook for three hundred years so it is the duty of government to use all the powers at its disposal to drive a\u00c2\u00a0new economy for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThey have to be prepared to do more than simply\u00c2\u00a0set out more chairs in the job centre &#8211; and talk of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098hard choices\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ahead\u00c2\u00a0sounds dangerously like a\u00c2\u00a0scheme to balance the books on the back of working people and the poor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWorkers have not caused this crisis, a fact recognised by the French and can sleep more easily in their\u00c2\u00a0beds at night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are urging the chancellor:\u00c2\u00a0do not abandon UK workers.\u00c2\u00a0 Pull the country&#8217;s talents together urgently to produce a\u00c2\u00a0proper programme to stop our communities descending into\u00c2\u00a0jobs wastelands,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Shaun Noble <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m afraid to say that when the country hungers for a hearty diet of jobs saving and creation,\u00c2\u00a0the chancellor has\u00c2\u00a0offered little more than thin gruel for fearful workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1433,160,1309,103],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS Len McCluskey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction to Rishi Sunak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069"}],"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=24069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24071,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions\/24071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}