{"id":4476,"date":"2015-06-12T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:20:04","slug":"on-the-road-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4476","title":{"rendered":"On the road to nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>George Osborne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098march of the makers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is stuck on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098road to nowhere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 warned Unite, as official figures released earlier this week (June 10) showed a decline in manufacturing with output still 4.4 per cent below its pre-recession peak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The slump in manufacturing undermines the chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claims of a re-balancing of the recovery, which is being led by consumer spending and the dominant services sector. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures come hours ahead of chancellor George Osborne&#8217;s annual Mansion House speech.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These figures show manufacturing is still five per cent below the pre-recession peak,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bGeorge Osborne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of any joined up industrial and manufacturing strategy is to blame, leaving his march of the makers stuck on the road to nowhere.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe question marks on continued EU membership and the deep cuts planned for the July budget are adding to the gloom and uncertainty among manufacturers and our members,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burke argued that UK manufacturing needs an industrial strategy that addresses skills, investment and low productivity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe would urge George Osborne to drop the soundbites when he delivers his budget next month and put decent jobs and manufacturing at the heart of the UK economy.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manufacturing strategy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/how-we-help\/list-of-sectors\/manufacturing\/manufacturingunitestrategy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Osborne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098march of the makers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is stuck on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098road to nowhere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 warned Unite, as official figures released earlier this week (June 10) showed a decline in manufacturing with output still 4.4 per cent below its pre-recession peak. &nbsp; The slump in manufacturing undermines the chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claims of a re-balancing of the recovery, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"wps_subtitle":"Manufacturing slump undermines chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claims ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476"}],"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=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4477,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}