Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry, Swindon on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following articles relating to the car industry can be found at : http://libcom.org/tags/auto-industry
Audio interview with Visteon occupier
Audio interview with Unite convenor at the occupied Visteon plant in Belfast, John McGuire.
Car factory occupations spread across the UK
Sacked workers from the car parts firm Visteon have been occupying three factories across the UK since Wednesday.
Canadian auto-workers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry, Swindon on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Workers at the firm’s factory in Swindon, which is not producing any cars at the moment, are set to receive a letter from the company stressing how “dire” the situation was for car manufacturing.
An official at the Unite union said negotiations were yet to be held on the company’s proposals.
An increasing number of companies are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Credit Crunch, Greece, Green, Organise, Swindon on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s no doubt that the six weeks from March 28th – May 4th offers our anarchist movement a chance to move out of the shadows. Against the background of recession there has been rioting across Europe from Riga to Sofia. These are riots not by activists but by poor people hurting badly. The Greek uprising [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anti-fascism, Swindon on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Article by Andy Newman Taken from Socialist Unity – 22 Febraury 2009
On Friday I was visited by Julian Corbett, from the Public Protection Department of Wiltshire Police.
He came to ask me what my relationship was with wannabe Nazi terrorist, Mark Bullman (pictured), and to warn me that Bullman is now out of prison, and is looking for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry, Swindon on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7892538.stm
Angry scenes at the BMW Mini Cowley plant in Oxford were caught on mobile phone.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Industry, Swindon on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new wave of redundancies and pay cuts hits car manufacturing in the UK, as companies aim to take back the cost of the recession from the workforce.
Ford are looking to axe 7% of its UK workforce, with nearly half of the staff at its Southampton Transit plant lined up to go. The company is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Credit Crunch, Swindon on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Honda said this morning it was halting production at its Swindon plant in April and May, extending the two-month closure announced before Christmas to four months.
The company said in November that it would halt production in February and March, with 4,800 workers receiving full basic pay.
Today the company said that because of the continuing fall [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Culture, Swindon on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Have you read Swindon’s most famous author?
Ralph Bates
Writer who kept his devotion to republican Spain alive in his novels
Ralph Bates, who has died in New York, aged 101, was the oldest survivor of that legendary group of British writers who gave their energies, their writings, and – in some cases – their lives to the [...]
