The official UNITE-Amicus press release about the closure of the Electrolux Spennymoor plant makes truly depressing reading.
Is negotiating better redundancy terms while our manufacturing industry is decimated really the best the trade union movement can do?
This plant is in Blair's old constituency. It's current losses are less than other plants in other countries - is this plant being shut because it's cheap, easy and quick to fire UK workers?
The government has no meaningful strategy to protect and develop industry and jobs because it is tied to "neo-liberal" free-market dogma which means the strategy is to have no strategy. Billions of our money are being thrown at Northern Rock - not to protect jobs and housing of working people, but to prop up shaky financial markets which gambled and lost. Even the word "nationalisation" is back in the news - but to prop up profit, not to put people before profit.
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