{"id":4841,"date":"2015-07-16T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2015-07-17T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T11:25:59","slug":"bitter-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4841","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Bitter blow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ministers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 failure to support manufacturing over high energy prices has significantly contributed to the loss of 720 jobs at Tata Steel in Rotherham, Unite said today (July 16).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite, which has about 200 members at the Rotherham site, said the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high energy costs, compared with steel competitors in Germany and the Far East were too high \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the government needed to create a level playing field to help the UK steel industry remain competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHigh energy prices have made a significant contribution to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement of the job losses in Rotherham,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Doug Patterson. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe strong pound has not helped either when it comes to exporting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese job losses are a bitter blow to the workers and their families, as well as the local economy in South Yorkshire,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite and other steel unions have been making representations to ministers for some time about the high cost of energy, compared with competitors in Germany, other EU countries and the Far East.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is clear that we need more of an energy level playing field to help the steel industry in particular and manufacturing in general,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Patterson went on to say. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bOther EU countries manage to support their industries in this area, while not breaking EU regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will be working hard with the other steel unions at Rotherham to ensure that there are no compulsory redundancies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and we will be pressing that message strongly at upcoming meetings with the Tata management.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nTata also blamed higher electricity costs which it said were double those of European competitors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite said that Tata currently employed about 2,200 workers at its South Yorkshire sites of Rotherham, Brinsworth and Stocksbridge. The union said that there may be adverse impact on agency workers employed at Stocksbridge, as a result of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 failure to support manufacturing over high energy prices has significantly contributed to the loss of 720 jobs at Tata Steel in Rotherham, Unite said today (July 16). &nbsp; Unite, which has about 200 members at the Rotherham site, said the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high energy costs, compared with steel competitors in Germany and the Far East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126,108],"wps_subtitle":" High energy prices to blame for Tata job losses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841"}],"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=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}