Metal Box
Socialist Press1980 1980-09-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Wing the proposed closure of the plant at Winsford, Cheshire, employing 500 workers.
The Winsford plant is scheduled to close by the end of the year. Three months later the firm plans to close its Rochester plant, axing 760 jobs.
Short-time
8,000 of the firm's workers also face short time working from the middle of this month.
Once again the Tory-stoked recession is to blame, cutting back demand for cans and containers, and pressurising employers into a renewed attack on shopfloor workers.
The Winsford closure comes at the same time as redundancies at the local ICL plant and in the midst of a wave of closures in textiles and other industries in the North West.
It must be resisted by a campaign based on occupation of the plant linked to a call for supporting strike and blacking action through Metal Box and related industries.
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closures 1,700 jobs are under threat in Metal Box, includ-