'Don't snap the investment wallet shut - our jobs depend on it'

Boris Johnson cut the ribbon at Nissan but we know who really delivered – the workers. We’ve battled for years for UK battery manufacturing.

At long last we’ve got somewhere – but this first plant mustn’t be the last. A global green revolution is underway and the UK needs at least another six giga-factories just to keep us at the races.

Germany isn?t waiting around, investing over ?1 billion to deliver heartland jobs. Businesses are hungry for green opportunities and committed government partners.

But employers I deal with every day are tearing their hair out at the UK government’s half-baked embrace of the green jobs potential.

Ministers, get a move on.  Signal in huge flashing lights that the UK is the place to invest.  Let drivers know they can go green confident that they?ll get from A to B hitch-free via a nationwide rapid charge network.  Unite?s members are standing by to build it.

Nissan workers rightly celebrate their game-changing plant. But workers at Vauxhall, JLR, Ford, Toyota and BMW need the same.

PM, hundreds of thousands of jobs ? and our planet?s health – depend on you stepping up.  Don’t snap the investment wallet shut.

This is the green jobs moment ? miss it and won’t come around again.

By Steve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary