manufacture - union on the march
WORKERS, NOVEMBER 2003 ISSUE
Amicus, the trade union representing manufacturing workers, has called for a Minister of Industry to be appointed to ensure that industry is given focus in the coming years. But with the government's previous record on engineering and manufacturing this may get watered down to a mere initiative through the Department for Trade and Industry.
The call came at the end of a demonstration by Amicus members outside the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth. There was much clapping from onlookers, and those involved felt pleased finally to have organised something national over manufacturing after two decades of torpor.