Unite calls for manufacturing minister

Posted on 13 Nov 2013 by The Manufacturer

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has called on the government to appoint a minister for manufacturing to drive through a strategy in order to help rebalance the economy.

With manufacturing still at 9 per cent below pre-recession level if transport manufacturing is removed from the figures, manufacturing output is around 13 per cent lower than it was in 2008. Unite is proposing ten key pillars for manufacturing to rebalance the UK economy in a strategy paper launched today entitled Made in Britain:

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