Remploy strike threat

OLDHAM Remploy workers are set to go on strike in protest to the factory’s proposed closure.

Members of the GMB and Unite unions said they will give Remploy seven days notice with immediate effect for a programme of strikes and other action.

Staff at the Bardsley-based site, who are predominantly disabled workers, will join the other 53 factories nationwide in the industrial action.

Phil Davies, national officer of the GMB, said: “These closures are going ahead without any consideration of the feelings and needs of these workers and their families or their future job prospects. To close a factory that employs disabled people in the present economic climate is a sentence to life of unemployment and poverty.”

The closure of 36 of the 54 factories could take place this August, with more than 100 jobs facing the axe at the Ashton Road plant.

Oldham Business Leadership Group (OBLG) is leading a bid, in partnership with Oldham Council, to save the factory and run it as a social enterprise.

It is still awaiting a response from the Government to see if their business plan has been accepted.







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