{"id":7275,"date":"2016-01-11T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2016-01-12T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:54:44","slug":"wake-up-call-to-support-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7275","title":{"rendered":"Support manufacturing call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Monday January 11) annual survey by the manufacturers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 organisation EEF shows that <\/span>Britain is becoming less competitive as a base for manufacturers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe EEF\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survey is yet another wake up call to the government,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Tony Burke, Unite assistant general secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe saw in the steel sector the consequences of not having an integrated strategy for manufacturing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the plant at Redcar closed and with it a national asset and over 2,000 skilled jobs were lost along with thousands more in the supply chain,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Manufacturing directly employs 2.6m and accounts for 54 per cent of UK exports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lack of a coherent industrial strategy from the government is holding back the sector and jeopardising thousands of highly skilled well paid jobs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">EEF chief economist Lee Hopley said the survey reflected growing concerns about rising labour costs and regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bManufacturing is the greatest creator of wealth this country has,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Tony.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government needs to stop sloganeering and do some serious work to support manufacturers like governments in our competitor nations such as Germany do,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unite is also concerned about employers breaking up skilled workforces and trying to impose lower pay and conditions as the answer to the dilemmas facing manufacturing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe know from past experience that those employers who engage the workers and their unions are the ones still standing when the storm passes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have been here before with the minimum wage and no jobs were lost over what was arguably a far more demanding pay improvement than Osborne&#8217;s effort which will only apply to the over-25s,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Tony.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (Monday January 11) annual survey by the manufacturers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 organisation EEF shows that Britain is becoming less competitive as a base for manufacturers. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe EEF\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survey is yet another wake up call to the government,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Tony Burke, Unite assistant general secretary. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe saw in the steel sector the consequences of not having [&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":[],"wps_subtitle":"Survey is wake up call to save industry ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275"}],"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=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7293,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions\/7293"}],"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=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}