The Socialist 18 November 2009

Fighting for a future

Youth march for jobs

More evidence of climate change: Socialist planning needed

British Airways merger plan poses new threat to workers

Tamil refugees in desperate situation

Labour pushes nuclear plants

Fast news

Third week of Superdrug strike

Brighton bin workers score quick victory

Leeds council delays talks to end bin dispute

Sheffield First bus drivers beat back bullying management

Interview with Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary

USSR 1989 - the collapse of Stalinism

Glasgow North East by-election: Mass abstentions in Labour's 'surprise win'

Far right SDL driven out of Glasgow city centre

Service with a snarl: Robert Service refuses to answer questions

Working life in a car factory

Ericsson closure condemned by Coventry socialist councillor

Save Ashford further education

London trade unionists meet to build workers' solidarity

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Ericsson closure condemned by Coventry socialist councillor

Ericsson announced on 10 November the axing of 700 workers and the closure of its research and development facility at Ansty, near Coventry. The company had only just completed its move to that site with the financial assistance of the West Midlands development agency.

Coventry Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist said: "It's about time the government started taking serious action against these footloose multinationals. Ericsson has not made this decision overnight.

"It has used public money to help establish its new research and development centre. Now, like others before it, for example Peugeot, it is exporting those jobs to countries where wage rates are lower and trade unions are weaker, in order to maximise profits.

"The government should intervene and nationalise Ericsson - or are the skills and experience of those workers, in the technologies of the future - optics, mobiles and broadband - worth less than bankers' bonuses?"

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