motor industry - sackings at peugeot
WORKERS, MAY 2005 ISSUE
Lost in the reporting of the disaster which has engulfed Rover workers is news that 850 jobs at the Peugeot Ryton car factory in Coventry are also to be axed.
As reported in WORKERS in April, deliberate time wasting and foot dragging by the EU Commission for over two years ensured that new production of the Peugeot 207 range, scheduled for 2002, has now gone to France and Slovakia. Ryton, which employs 3,000 workers, will see almost a third of its workers sacked.