Thursday 8 March 2012

remploy up for closer by lab/cons

all i can say is thank you to all that voted conservatives and labour this is what happens when you vote bare faced liers never mined the fact that labour are putting on a sympathy show and saying they are against it its all lies ive personally meet some of the people that work in this factory and the factory is a life line as some of the workers cant or can barely walk i personally am behind the workers down there and i will be asking for a campaign on this from my party stoke bnp just to show the people that work down on these factory that they have proper representation  ive put the article up for your viewing  people need to realise don't keep voting conservatives or labour this is the damage these party's do


Remploy factory to close with loss of 100 jobs

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Thursday, March 08, 2012
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MORE than 100 disabled workers are to lose their jobs after their factory was earmarked for closure.
The Government-funded Remploy plant at Trentham Lakes is to shut "within the year" with the loss of 114 jobs.
The Remploy board has now identified 36 out of its 54 factories as "unviable", despite a 100,000-name petition to safeguard their future.
The announcement comes after the Department for Work and Pensions accepted recommendations set out in the Sayce report that funding should be focused on individuals.
Workers at the Gordon Banks Drive plant were told about the plans at a meeting yesterday and a 90-day consultation period is now underway.
Alex Pullin said he had been promised a job "for life" when he joined Remploy as a 16-year-old in 1988.
The 39-year-old, of Wood Lane, said: "I phoned my fiancee Joanne as soon as we got the news – we were going to get married next year, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to now."
The 36 factory closures will lead to the loss of more than 1,700 jobs and unions fear the remaining 18 sites are likely to shut "in due course".
Calvin Fraser, of Middleport, called on companies such as JCB to give more work to the plant, which carries out jobs, including assembly for car companies and book binding.
The 57-year-old, who has worked there for 32 years, said: "If we got more work perhaps the factory could stop open."
Unite representative Colin Hanley, pictured, added: "We are devastated. All we can do is go down fighting."
Remploy closed its Stoke factory in 2002 and its Newcastle operation in 2007.
More than 3,000 people in the region signed the petition to save North Staffordshire's last Remploy factory last year.
Stoke-on-Trent South MP Rob Flello said: "I'm appalled at how the Government is hitting the most vulnerable people in our society."
Liz Sayce, chief executive of disability rights charity RADAR, was commissioned to find out how the Government's £320 million disability employment services could be better spent last year.
Maria Miller, Minister for Disabled People, said: "The budget has been protected, but by spending the money more effectively, we can get thousands more disabled people in work."
Shop stewards are due to meet later this month to discuss their next move.