{"id":27994,"date":"2021-03-04T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=27994"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:16:03","slug":"a-budget-of-spin-gimmicks-and-dangerous-wheezes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=27994","title":{"rendered":"A Budget of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098spin, gimmicks and dangerous\u00c2\u00a0wheezes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reacting last night to the Budget statement delivered by chancellor Rishi Sunak (Wednesday, March 3)\u00c2\u00a0Unite general secretary Len McCluskey warned that the government’s flagship freeports policy could cause wage \u00e2\u20ac\u0098sinkholes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and demanded more action on jobs creation.<\/p>\n

McCluskey said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn this time of crisis, workers\u00c2\u00a0and communities\u00c2\u00a0are\u00c2\u00a0desperate for\u00c2\u00a0action on a\u00c2\u00a0scale that meets this enormous moment and takes us to a fairer future.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bInstead, the chancellor plundered his back catalogue to pull out a sketchy policy, a\u00c2\u00a0return of freeports, a failed experiment of the last decades where the only winners are\u00c2\u00a0tax avoiders and bad bosses.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFreeports are sinkholes,\u00c2\u00a0draining decent jobs and wages away\u00c2\u00a0from our communities.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFurther, we want the chancellor to\u00c2\u00a0answer why English freeports will sidestep employment rights, minimum wages and basic standards while workers in Scotland will keep all these protections.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese ports stand in utter contradiction to the pledge to level up, and we will oppose them,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he pledged.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need a\u00c2\u00a0coherent industrial strategy and\u00c2\u00a0real action to\u00c2\u00a0underpin jobs creation, not\u00c2\u00a0spin, gimmicks and dangerous\u00c2\u00a0wheezes.<\/p>\n

Autumn income and jobs emergency fears <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is now also the\u00c2\u00a0very real worry now that we face an autumn incomes and jobs emergency, created by this Budget when it ought to be charting the course out of this economic crisis.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFurlough support will fall away and Universal Credit will be cut by \u00c2\u014120 a week at precisely the time when unemployment could well be rising.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe comfortably off will be pleased by the extension of the stamp duty relaxation for those with expensive properties, but where is the proper assistance for those at the sharpest end of the economy in desperate need of help on sick pay, wages and rent debt?\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he asked.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFrontline\u00c2\u00a0workers kept this country safe and supported during this crisis, putting their own health on the line.\u00c2\u00a0Where this Budget should have recognised\u00c2\u00a0their heroic\u00c2\u00a0contribution with\u00c2\u00a0an\u00c2\u00a0end to a decade of wage cuts and the justified pay rise that the public wants to see, it failed them.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

Concluding he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe Budget was about choices.\u00c2\u00a0The danger is that this government has chosen to be timid in its\u00c2\u00a0actions\u00c2\u00a0for our people and our economic renewal but ambitious in advancing the Conservative party.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

By UNITElive team <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reacting last night to the Budget statement delivered by chancellor Rishi Sunak (Wednesday, March 3)\u00c2\u00a0Unite general secretary Len McCluskey warned that the government’s flagship freeports policy could cause wage \u00e2\u20ac\u0098sinkholes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and demanded more action on jobs creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[177,1589,160],"wps_subtitle":"Unite GS says freeports will risk job \u00e2\u20ac\u0098sinkholes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 when UK most needs jobs creation to avert autumn job crash","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994"}],"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=27994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27997,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994\/revisions\/27997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}