Tag: #ManufacturingCrisis
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Boris Johnson must nationalise to safeguard Ballymena jobs and skills and socially-necessary productive capacity at Wrightbus
Unite warns of devastating consequences of closure to Ballymena and wider economy if business is allowed to fail Unite Regional Secretary Jackie Pollock confirmed that his union had been informed that the Ballymena bus manufacturer Wrightbus had entered administration and that workers had been told they faced immediate redundancy as a result. “Unite officials have…
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Unite press conference today on threat to jobs at Wrightbus
When: 11am today [Wednesday September 25th] Where: Unite the union office, the Pentagon, 2 Ballymoney Road, Ballymena BT 45 3BY Unite warns of devastating consequences of closure to Ballymena and wider economy if jobs and skills not saved Union challenges administrator to be creative to defend jobs & contracts Today’s planned announcement of administration is…
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Wrights group workers at Wrightbus, En-drive and Customcare informed of further redundancies
Workers in Ballymena appear set to face yet another devastating job loss announcement Wrightbus bosses need to clarify whether phased redundancies are designed to avoid triggering ninety-day consultation June 5th: In the second such announcement in the last four months, employees at Wrightbus were this afternoon [Tuesday June 5] informed by management that there would…