Motor Industry - £10 gap enough to close Ryton
WORKERS, JUNE 2006 ISSUE
IT HAS emerged that of the three Peugeot factories making the 207 model, the threatened Ryton plant is the second most productive, turning out 67 vehicles a day compared with 69 from the Spanish plant at Vigo and 54 at Poissy in France. Peugeot claims that costs are higher at Coventry than at Poissy – £290 per vehicle as opposed to £280 at Poissy. The £10 differential is costing 2,300 workers at Coventry their jobs.