{"id":6431,"date":"2015-10-23T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T10:31:01","slug":"woefully-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=6431","title":{"rendered":"Woefully inadequate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement of\u00c2\u00a0up to a maximum\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u01416m in new funding to support the steel town of Scunthorpe is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098woefully inadequate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and only deals with the symptoms not the causes of the crisis engulfing the steel, Unite said today (October 23).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Funding of \u00c2\u01413m \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to provide help for start-up businesses, was described as an \u00e2\u20ac\u0098insult\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Unite and comes in the wake of this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement that Tata Steel UK would be cutting 900 jobs in the town.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tata has separately pledged \u00c2\u01413m to support job creation in Scunthorpe, while the government has also said it will also be providing \u00e2\u20ac\u0098up to\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00c2\u01413m for training affected employees through local further education colleges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a woefully inadequate response from the government to support a town and industry which is being rocked by job losses,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Tony Burke, Unite assistant general secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Insult <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bSteelworkers will view this limp response from the government as an insult which only deals with the symptoms, not the causes, of the steel crisis. Even then you have to ask just how much of an impact this new money will have in creating good quality jobs and supporting the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bScunthorpe and the surrounding area are reliant on skilled steel jobs. Once the jobs are gone the knock on impact will be felt throughout the supply chain and the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government funding announced by business secretary Sajid Javid is a drop in the ocean to what is needed.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burke added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government needs to do more than promising \u00e2\u20ac\u0098loose change\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and warm words to workers who face losing their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMinisters need to act now, and act fast, to deal with the causes of the steel crisis and to keep the light burning in the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s steel industry.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement of\u00c2\u00a0up to a maximum\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u01416m in new funding to support the steel town of Scunthorpe is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098woefully inadequate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and only deals with the symptoms not the causes of the crisis engulfing the steel, Unite said today (October 23). &nbsp; Funding of \u00c2\u01413m \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to provide help for start-up businesses, was described as an [&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":[269],"wps_subtitle":"Unite fury over govt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0098limp response\u00e2\u20ac\u2122","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431"}],"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=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6434,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6434"}],"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=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}