{"id":6237,"date":"2015-10-12T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2015-10-13T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:07:04","slug":"snuffing-the-light-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6237","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Snuffing the light out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite accused the government of allowing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098light to be snuffed out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on steelmaking in Teesside, following the announcement today (October 12) that coke ovens and blast furnace at the SSI Redcar steel mill would be closed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe hope of a buyer stepping in has been cruelly extinguished by the liquidator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s haste and the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to step in and buy more coal to keep the coke ovens alight,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Unite national officer Harish Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is devastating news for all those whose livelihoods depend on steel making on Teesside and the hopes of a community who thought that an alternative solution could be found,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPatel condemned the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bgovernment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laissez faire approach\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 which, he said, sets a dangerous precedent for an industry battling to stay afloat in the face of cheap Chinese imports and high energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe would urge the government to change its stance, to intervene and support Redcar and the UK steel industry, so that British industry can take advantage of major projects, such as HS2 and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Northern Powerhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Patel went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe warned that steelmaking in the UK is at \u00e2\u20ac\u015bcrisis point\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and that it was time for the government to stop hiding behind EU rules and follow the lead of the Italian, French and German governments by intervening to save a critical part of the British economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite accused the government of allowing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098light to be snuffed out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on steelmaking in Teesside, following the announcement today (October 12) that coke ovens and blast furnace at the SSI Redcar steel mill would be closed. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe hope of a buyer stepping in has been cruelly extinguished by the liquidator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s haste and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[396,269],"wps_subtitle":"Govt accused of cruelly extinguishing Redcar ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237"}],"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=6237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}