{"id":5955,"date":"2015-09-28T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2015-09-28T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:06:00","slug":"save-redcar-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5955","title":{"rendered":"Save Redcar steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much vaunted \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Northern Powerhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 risks being nothing more than empty rhetoric unless it intervenes to save the SSI steelworks in Redcar on Teesside, Unite said today (September 28)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The warning came as the union responded to the news that SSI was mothballing the Redcar facility with the loss of 1,700 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is devastating news for Redcar and the thousands of people who depend on the steelworks for their livelihoods,&#8221; said Unite national officer Harish Patel. &#8220;Steel is the lifeblood of the local economy and runs through the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s veins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much vaunted Northern Powerhouse risks being nothing more than empty rhetoric unless it steps in with assistance to save the SSI plant on Redcar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWith so many livelihoods at stake and the UK steel industry at crisis point government ministers need to follow the lead of their counterparts in France, Italy and Germany by pursuing an active industrial strategy which supports the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s steel industry,&#8221; Patel added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOver the coming days Unite will be doing everything we can to support our members and the community and pressing government ministers to intervene and save our steel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much vaunted \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Northern Powerhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 risks being nothing more than empty rhetoric unless it intervenes to save the SSI steelworks in Redcar on Teesside, Unite said today (September 28) &nbsp; &nbsp; The warning came as the union responded to the news that SSI was mothballing the Redcar facility with the loss of 1,700 jobs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[126,396,269],"wps_subtitle":"Government urged to intervene on job losses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955"}],"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=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}