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19 July 2011
A Burton-on-Trent car components company, Kongsberg has confirmed today (19 July) it will to move production to Poland.
07 July 2011
Unite, the largest union in the country, will hold urgent talks tomorrow (Friday 8 July) to save jobs at South Wales car filter firm Sogefi Filtration which today (Thursday 7 July) announced up to 190 ‘devastating’ redundancies.
30 March 2010
Hundreds of former Visteon employees will march on Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday, 31 March) in the campaign to make the Ford car company honour its ‘cast-iron’ commitment to finance their pensions.
15 January 2010
Unite has said workers are devastated over the motor parts manufacturer Bosch’s decision to close its south Wales plant with up to 900 jobs losses.
14 January 2010
Unite will be staging a demonstration outside the Welsh Assembly on Thursday 21st January.
17 February 2009
Every job lost in the car and components sector is another urgent message to the government that action is needed to support the automotive sector with a strategic support package.
05 February 2009
Moves by Ford to cut around 850 jobs across its UK plants, and freeze a negotiated pay deal, have today (Thursday) been denounced as a 'betrayal' of a loyal workforce by the workers' union Unite, which is warning the car giant that cutting workers' pay to meet redundancy payments could lead to industrial action.
05 February 2009
On a visit to BMW in Oxford today (5th February), to meet workers at the plant, Derek Simpson, joint leader of Unite, will call on the government to introduce an "old banger bonus" scheme, similar to the successful German scheme as part of a comprehensive package to support the UK car industry.
27 January 2009
Unite has welcomed the positive announcement for the car industry but is calling for further support to safeguard the car sector
27 January 2009
It used to be said in the 60s and 70s that if Ford sneezed the economy caught a cold. The car industry is just as important an indicator of the health of the economy now as it was then.
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