Britain’s manufacturing sector has shrunk in the past decade by almost 600,000 jobs to leave fewer than 3 million workers employed in the sector, whereas the Index of Production has increased at the same time.
In 2007, the UK supported 3.5 million permanent and temporary manufacturing jobs – more than 12% of the all British employment – image courtesy of Depositphotos. According to a report by the GMB, 599,100 jobs in the sector disappeared between 2007 and 2017, which is a massive fall of 17%. Between…
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