{"id":7792,"date":"2016-02-18T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2016-02-18T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:36:43","slug":"worst-among-equals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7792","title":{"rendered":"Worst among equals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to adopt an active industrial strategy and decisively support manufacturing industries such as steel is leaving the UK lagging behind in the productivity stakes warned Unite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe warning follows today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 18) official figures showing that in manufacturing, the UK was 24 per cent less productive than Germany, 18 per cent less productive than France and 45 per cent less productive than the USA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics figures, output per hour across the UK economy in 2014 was 18 per cent below the average for the rest of the major G7 advanced economies, representing the widest productivity gap since comparable estimates began in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to adopt an active industrial strategy is holding back the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s productivity in manufacturing and leading to the loss of vital skills in key industries such as steel,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bA low waged, low skilled economy built on precarious and insecure work will see the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s productivity gap continue to grow and fail to deliver sustainable economic growth,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGovernment ministers need to ask themselves why France with its 35 hour working week and Germany where trade unions are embraced as partners in productivity are both streets ahead of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWorking longer for less to boost productivity is not the answer,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Burke went on to say. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need a coherent plan for skills and an industrial strategy that invests and nurtures manufacturing for the future. Not the current \u00e2\u20ac\u0098hands free\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, laissez-faire approach of government ministers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGovernment ministers and businesses also need to wake up to fact that a happy and secure workforce, with trade union representation is a more productive one.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to adopt an active industrial strategy and decisively support manufacturing industries such as steel is leaving the UK lagging behind in the productivity stakes warned Unite. &nbsp; The warning follows today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 18) official figures showing that in manufacturing, the UK was 24 per cent less productive than Germany, 18 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[326],"wps_subtitle":"Govt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of strategy holds back UK ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792"}],"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=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}