{"id":3412,"date":"2015-03-20T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2015-03-20T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:08:42","slug":"offshoring-via-the-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3412","title":{"rendered":"Offshoring via the backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Rolls-Royce, the iconic luxury car manufacturer which now predominantly builds aircraft engines, owes much of its success to the thousands of highly skilled UK workers who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made the business the bastion of world-class engineering it is today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn a short-term bid to cut costs amid profit losses, however, Rolls-Royce announced a global restructuring exercise last year which would see the axing of 2,600 jobs and has already led to the proposed closure of Derby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s precision manufacturing facility and the turbine machining facility in Ansty, Warwickshire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nToday (March 20), Rolls-Royce announced it would be opening a new design facility in India, adding 500 new jobs, which Unite believes is nothing more than the offshoring of high-tech engineering jobs via the backdoor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe warned when Rolls-Royce announced plans to cut jobs last year that it could result in the offshoring of high-tech engineering jobs,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Tony Tinley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt now appears that this is the case and that the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s global restructuring exercise is being used as cover to offshore jobs via the back door,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bToday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement will be good news for workers in India, but it will be viewed as a kick in the teeth by UK workers and apprentices who face an increasingly uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe UK workforce is world class and has proved time again to be at the cutting edge of engineering,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Tinley went on to say. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThey have shown their loyalty in building up Rolls-Royce and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time the company repaid that loyalty with concrete assurances about long-term engineering in the UK.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aerospace division is the second largest engine manufacturer in the world, providing the engines for the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350 jetliners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/theyve-gone\/\">When Rolls-Royce first threatened job cuts in November of last year<\/a>, Unite national officer Ian Waddell warned that the UK cannot afford to turn away such a highly skilled workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bExperience suggests that many of those who leave engineering are lost forever,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe must do all we can to keep skilled people in manufacturing if the UK is to succeed.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce, the iconic luxury car manufacturer which now predominantly builds aircraft engines, owes much of its success to the thousands of highly skilled UK workers who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made the business the bastion of world-class engineering it is today. &nbsp; In a short-term bid to cut costs amid profit losses, however, Rolls-Royce announced a global restructuring exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[189],"wps_subtitle":"New India site kick in teeth for Rolls-Royce workers ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}