Tony Burke, assistant general secretary at Unite, muses on the findings of Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI).
Claims by the coalition government that the UK’s beleaguered manufacturing sector is beginning to show signs of recovery were dealt another blow this week by the reliable Markit/CIPS purchasing managers’ index (PMI), which showed that manufacturing contracted in the first quarter of 2013. This followed another month of falling output with manufacturing companies cutting back…
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