I Newport ockuperar arbetare sin fabrik i protest mot den planerade uppsägningen av 625 arbetare. Fabriken tillverkar turbiner för vindkraftverk och ägs av det danska företaget Vestas Windsystems. Uppsägningarna kommer trots att företaget gör stora vinster (försäljningen steg under våren med 59%).
Till Libcom säger en av arbetarna:
”It is our last-ditch attempt to save the jobs. This is a green industry and the government keep harping on about how much they want to get all these hundreds of thousands of green jobs going. But then they go and close the only wind turbine plant in England. The government offered to give Vestas money to keep it going, but apparently Vestas turned this down. What we would like to see is the government actually taking it over and possibly nationalising it.”
En solidaritetssida finns redan på nätet. Där kunde man igår läsa följande korta meddelande:
Workers have occupied the St Cross factory in Newport. This measure has been taken due to the consistent failure of Vestas Blades and the government to face up to their responsibilities in the necessary challenge of fighting climate change and maintaining jobs. Due to management attempting to intimidate the workers who have been organising themselves in preparation for a fight, plans to move on the factory were accellerated and a team of workers have taken the plant at 7:45 this evening as a result. Now more than ever Vestas workers need our support. The island does not have a history of workers taking control – this could be the first of many victories where workers take control of their industries and demand that the bosses put people before profit, the environment before opportunism.
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