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14 July 2010
Swansea Linamar plant: Reluctant vote for redundancy
Workers at the Linamar car parts plant in Swansea voted overwhelmingly to reluctantly accept the company's closure terms, at a mass meeting on Monday 12 July...
Linamar workers support sacked covneor Rob Williams, photo Sarah Mayo
17 June 2009
Recent industrial disputes bring important lessons for the future
Editorial: THE VICTORY of Rob Williams, in getting his job back and being reinstated into his position as convenor of the Swansea Linamar car parts plant has tremendous lessons for the future. And it reveals, along with other struggles that have broken out in the last six months, the crucial role of conscious socialists in the workplace.
28 May 2009
Rob Williams gets backing of Linamar workers
Linamar workers in Swansea have voted for an all out strike in support of their sacked convenor rob Williams.
Electric cars, but ... (photo Chris Moore)
22 April 2009
New Labour's environmental ploy: How green are electric cars?
DESPERATE TO arrest his precipitous decline in the opinion polls, Gordon Brown has announced an incentive scheme to give people up to £5,000 towards the cost of trading in their old car for an electric one, writes Ken Douglas.
25 March 2009
Tide of job losses must be fought
Unemployment statistics released on 18 March confirmed that there are now two million people without work...
4 March 2009
Workers at the Sogefi car filter plant in South Wales have had enough. At a mass meeting of 300 out of the 400 in the plant on 14 February, they brushed aside calls for calm, called from the floor for...
24 February 2009
Car industry in crisis: Death of jobs by a thousand cuts
Car components firm GKN has announced the closure of two of its plants in the West Midlands. This will mean 323 direct job losses. Dave Griffiths spoke to Pete Bradley, a GKN worker and a member of the Amicus section of Unite, before the latest cuts announcement.
15 February 2009
Britain is particularly exposed to the economic storm which is unfolding. Iceland was a country effectively acting as a hedge fund. This country is not much different, as the FT commented:...
11 February 2009
Car industry in crisis - national meeting
Saturday 14 February 2009, 12-4pm, The Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BS...
5 February 2009
CAR WORKERS in Britain face job cuts, long lay-offs and increased short-time working. Nissan, Jaguar Land Rover and other car manufacturers have all cut jobs. The recession-hit 'British' car industry...
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