{"id":5963,"date":"2015-09-28T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2015-09-28T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:39:21","slug":"support-british-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5963","title":{"rendered":"Support British manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke today (September 28) spoke at the Labour Party conference about manufacturing, growth and the role trade unions can play in being drivers of productivity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur economy is still over-reliant on financial services \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and without the success of our automotive and aerospace sectors growth would be back where it was in 2007,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bConference, Unite argue that we need a manufacturing strategy to help grow the economy and avoid another economic disaster.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burke criticised business secretary Sajid Javid on his recent speech on productivity in which he stated it \u00e2\u20ac\u0098took UK workers five days to produce what German workers produce in four\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat Mr Javid failed to say was that in Germany productivity is higher because workers and unions play a full part in their companies through strong unions who are informed and consulted,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Burke said, adding that German prime minister Angela Merkel recognises the importance of trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed to Germany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s support of small and medium sized companies and its well-structured skills and apprenticeship system as other factors contributing to the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s higher productivity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burke highlighted the 1700 job losses announced today after a steel mill in Redcar is to be mothballed, as well as the 2000 job losses at a Goodyear factory in Wolverhampton as proof that the Tory government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Northern Powerhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pledge was a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bcruel joke\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCameron, Osborne, Javid and Boles are behaving like latter day Arthur Dalys looking to skim off the bottom line,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bYou can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run a successful economy without a strong manufacturing base &#8211; and without a strong manufacturing sector you cannot deliver decent public services,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Burke added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by calling on the shadow business secretary Angela Eagle and her team \u00e2\u20ac\u015bto develop an integrated manufacturing strategy based on decent work, stable jobs with a future and to make it clear that Labour supports British manufacturing.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke today (September 28) spoke at the Labour Party conference about manufacturing, growth and the role trade unions can play in being drivers of productivity. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur economy is still over-reliant on financial services \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and without the success of our automotive and aerospace sectors growth would be back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[399,55],"wps_subtitle":"Labour urged to develop economic growth strategy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963"}],"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=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}