{"id":29359,"date":"2021-07-02T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29359"},"modified":"2021-07-05T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:13:27","slug":"dont-snap-the-investment-wallet-shut-our-jobs-depend-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29359","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t snap the investment wallet shut &#8211; our jobs depend on it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Boris Johnson cut the ribbon at Nissan but we know who really delivered &#8211; the workers. We&#8217;ve battled for years for UK battery manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At long last we&#8217;ve got somewhere &#8211; but this first plant mustn&#8217;t be the last. A global green revolution is underway and the UK needs at least another six giga-factories just to keep us at the races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waiting around, investing over \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1 billion to deliver heartland jobs. Businesses are hungry for green opportunities and committed government partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But employers I deal with every day are tearing their hair out at the UK government&#8217;s half-baked embrace of the green jobs potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministers, get a move on.&nbsp; Signal in huge flashing lights that the UK is the place to invest.&nbsp; Let drivers know they can go green confident that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get from A to B hitch-free via a nationwide rapid charge network.&nbsp; Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s members are standing by to build it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nissan workers rightly celebrate their game-changing plant. But workers at Vauxhall, JLR, Ford, Toyota and BMW need the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM, hundreds of thousands of jobs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and our planet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health &#8211; depend on you stepping up.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t snap the investment wallet shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the green jobs moment \u00e2\u20ac\u201c miss it and won&#8217;t come around again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Steve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson cut the ribbon at Nissan but we know who really delivered &#8211; the workers. We&#8217;ve battled for years for UK battery manufacturing. At long last we&#8217;ve got somewhere &#8211; but this first plant mustn&#8217;t be the last. A global green revolution is underway and the UK needs at least another six giga-factories just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[230,1577,1579,696],"wps_subtitle":"Unite AGS Steve Turner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message to government: new Nissan gigafactory \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first \u00e2\u20ac\u201c must not be its last","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359"}],"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=29359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29383,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359\/revisions\/29383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}