{"id":24491,"date":"2020-11-05T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=24491"},"modified":"2020-11-05T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:23:46","slug":"people-need-more-than-short-term-sticking-plasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=24491","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098People need more than short-term sticking plasters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Commenting in response to the chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest announcement (today, Thursday November 5) of additional financial\u00c2\u00a0support for business and workers in lockdown, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday&#8217;s extension of the job retention scheme until March 2021 is of course welcome\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c but entirely predictable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government was always going to have to get real because workers simply cannot be forced\u00c2\u00a0into further crisis-caused lockdowns without financial support.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThousands of UK\u00c2\u00a0jobs have been lost in the past 24 hours alone.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knows how many of these jobs and many more could have been saved if the prime minister and chancellor had followed the path of France and Germany and announced financial investment and jobs\u00c2\u00a0security packages\u00c2\u00a0well\u00c2\u00a0ahead of further lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs this recession worsens and millions are pushed to the financial cliff-edge, people need more than\u00c2\u00a0short-term sticking plasters reluctantly and retrospectively applied over deepening\u00c2\u00a0economic wounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWorkers, families and communities are facing ruin yet the absence\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0longer-term, strategic support for UK\u00c2\u00a0employers and households is\u00c2\u00a0making\u00c2\u00a0desperate\u00c2\u00a0matters worse,\u00c2\u00a0and is a gift to our competitors who will recover faster and stronger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need\u00c2\u00a0a government with a plan to protect health, jobs and incomes, to get us through these frightening\u00c2\u00a0times and out the other side, and we need it yesterday.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By UNITElive team <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting in response to the Chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest announcement (today, Thursday November 5) of additional financial\u00c2\u00a0support for business and workers in lockdown, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extension of the jobs retention scheme until March 2021 is of course welcome\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c but entirely predictable.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1330,1447,160,1309,44],"wps_subtitle":"McCluskey to Sunak:\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0098We need a plan for jobs and incomes, and we need it yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491"}],"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=24491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24496,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491\/revisions\/24496"}],"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=24491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}