[As union officials and convenors across the country…]
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As union officials and convenors across the country continue to supervise wholesale closures and redundancies, the determined occupation of the Vanity Fair plant in Greenock is still going strong after 2 months.
The sit-in by 240 women and 10 men has become the principal focus for the jobs fight in Scotland after misleadership and confusion allowed a mass meeting vote against occupation to be carried at the nearby Talbot plant at Linwood.
Wage earners
Husbands of some of the VF occupiers are among those made redundant at Linwood. Indeed 75% of the women now sitting in the plant (average age around 20) are the sole wage earners in their households, in an area of near-total industrial devastation.
Financial support is being widely raised for the VF occupation-but more is always needed. Donations and messages of support should be sent to the treasurer, c/o TGWU, 4, Bougham St., Greenock,
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