{"id":9011,"date":"2016-06-15T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2016-06-15T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:52:11","slug":"dont-put-uk-manufacturing-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9011","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t put UK manufacturing at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The country&#8217;s biggest manufacturing union Unite welcomed the interventions today (June 15) by some of the UK&#8217;s blue chip business as they seek to rally support for the UK to remain in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such is their concern that UK manufacturing would be damaged by a Brexit, the heads of Rolls Royce, Ford and GKN Aerospace took the step of writing to their workforces to make the case for the UK to stay in the Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their calls were echoed by Unite&#8217;s assistant general secretary for manufacturing, Tony Burke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe&#8217;ve heard today from the heads of companies that UK workers have made known around the world,&#8221; Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhen Ford, Rolls Royce and GKN Aerospace say that our future success as a manufacturing nation lies on us retaining our membership of the EU then we must listen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese companies employ men, women and apprentices right across the country,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Their jobs make our communities and our industry stronger. For every one directly employed worker in the manufacturing, four other jobs are supported in the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur members have worked extremely hard to make these companies the world beaters that they are,&#8221; Burke went on to say. &#8220;We appeal to voters, don&#8217;t put this at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese are the sort of jobs we want more of, to increase decent employment in this country, not to put it in jeopardy. That&#8217;s why we urge working people that on June 23 they get behind our world class workforces and vote Remain.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s biggest manufacturing union Unite welcomed the interventions today (June 15) by some of the UK&#8217;s blue chip business as they seek to rally support for the UK to remain in the European Union. &nbsp; Such is their concern that UK manufacturing would be damaged by a Brexit, the heads of Rolls Royce, Ford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[486,386,465,55],"wps_subtitle":"Top firms rally workforce to vote Remain","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011"}],"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=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9012,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions\/9012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}