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UNIONS in Scotland are furious with McVitie’s decision to issue redundancy notices to staff despite ongoing discussions over the Glasgow factory’s future.
Unite Scotland and GMB have confirmed that the workforce at the Tollcross site in the East End were contacted about redundancies today, with concerns bosses are not engaging in attempts to save jobs.
Nearly 500 jobs are at risk at the factory, which opened almost 100 years ago.
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
