{"id":29665,"date":"2021-08-03T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29665"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:47:29","slug":"we-need-to-maintain-sovereign-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29665","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We need to maintain sovereign capability&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite welcomed the recent news that defence-critical steel engineering firm Sheffield Forgemasters would be brought into the public hands after the MoD bought out the firm in a \u00c2\u01412.6m deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal secures hundreds of jobs and increases scope for the creation of new, highly-skilled and unionised jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing Steve Turner explains in an interview with Sheffield Live why this is such a welcome development both for jobs and for the UK&#8217;s wider national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheffield Forgemasters welcome news\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgFfx3lehi8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Clip complied by Martin Scanlon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite welcomed the recent news that defence-critical steel engineering firm Sheffield Forgemasters would be brought into the public hands after the MoD bought out the firm in a \u00c2\u01412.6m deal. The deal secures hundreds of jobs and increases scope for the creation of new, highly-skilled and unionised jobs. Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[55,1703,478,603],"wps_subtitle":"Unite AGS Steve Turner on welcome news of Sheffield Forgemasters' nationalisation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665"}],"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=29665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29669,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions\/29669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}