{"id":7305,"date":"2016-01-13T14:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2016-01-13T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:32:17","slug":"steel-industry-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7305","title":{"rendered":"Steel industry warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A new animated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HXpOgU26-7E&amp;feature=youtu.be\">film<\/a> warning that the clock is ticking on the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crisis hit steel industry has been launched by Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest union, Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Urging the UK government to turn words into action and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Save our Steel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, the short film highlights a world without steel and the devastating impact job cuts at Tata Steel in Scunthorpe and South Yorkshire could have on regional economies and the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The film which can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HXpOgU26-7E&amp;feature=youtu.be\">here<\/a> comes as steel workers battle for the industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survival amid the dumping of cheap Chinese steel and government inaction which resulted in the closure of the steelworks in Redcar and the loss of thousands of steel jobs in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Calling on ministers to do more to support the steel industry, the Unite film presses the government to follow the lead of nations such as the USA and Germany by actively supporting steel through procurement and by stopping the dumping of cheap imports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The film also urges viewers to back the Save our Steel campaign by signing The Mirror\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s petition at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/steelpetition\">www.mirror.co.uk\/steelpetition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new animated film warning that the clock is ticking on the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crisis hit steel industry has been launched by Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest union, Unite. &nbsp; Urging the UK government to turn words into action and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Save our Steel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, the short film highlights a world without steel and the devastating impact job cuts at Tata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[430,269],"wps_subtitle":"New film warns \u00e2\u20ac\u0098clock is ticking\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305"}],"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=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7306,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}