{"id":5457,"date":"2015-09-03T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T09:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2015-09-03T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:16:26","slug":"new-nissan-model-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5457","title":{"rendered":"New Nissan model welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Nissan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to go-ahead with the next generation Juke car is <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0098another positive step in the renaissance of the British car industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em>, Unite has said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The estimated \u00c2\u0141100m investment in the flagship model at the Sunderland site secures the future for both production lines at the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest car plant and the jobs of 34,000 workers currently employed by Nissan and its British suppliers beyond 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement scotched fears that the new version could be made at one of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overseas plants. The firm is now Brtain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest ever car maker, producing more than half a million vehicles last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Warm welcome <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite assistant general secretary for manufacturing, Tony Burke, said:<em> \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe warmly welcome the decision of Nissan to build the new Juke model in the UK, when it could have gone to one of Nissan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plants abroad.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe decision demonstrates the confidence the industry has in a highly skilled and dedicated workforce across the UK automotive industry and is a tribute to the close working relationship between management and unions built up over the last decade. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Secured<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s union reps and the Sunderland workforce have worked hard to secure the investment which will protect thousands of decent skilled jobs for the foreseeable future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis news is another vote of confidence in the continuing renaissance of the British car industry\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, he added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nissan Europe chairman, Paul Willcox, said Sunderland had earned the deal through \u00e2\u20ac\u015bmany years of hard work and their ability to continually raise the bar on quality.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nissan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to go-ahead with the next generation Juke car is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098another positive step in the renaissance of the British car industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite has said. &nbsp; The estimated \u00c2\u0141100m investment in the flagship model at the Sunderland site secures the future for both production lines at the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest car plant and the jobs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[386,385],"wps_subtitle":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Vote of confidence\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in future of UK car industry","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457"}],"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=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions\/5461"}],"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=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}