Feb 20, 2017
Labour demands job guarantees for Vauxhall workers
Labour has urged the government to seek guarantees that Britain's Vauxhall workforce will be protected if the company is sold to Peugeot carmaker PSA. Some 4,500 workers at car plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port, and up to 40,000 in the supply chain, face an uncertain future after it was announced last week that GM is in talks to sell its European business Opel, which owns Vauxhall. "Every part of Britain has a stake in Vauxhall ... we will do everything we can," he told MPs. Labour said that the deal raised questions about the government's claim to be forging a radical new industrial strategy. Unite the union said that it was "Heartening" that MPs from across the House of Commons had spoken up to back Vauxhall workers. "Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said:"The UK government must match, if not more, whatever political and financial support that the French and German governments are giving their plants and workers. The local Vauxhall plant imports three-quarters of its components and exports 80 per cent of its cars to the EU. The company makes Astra cars at both Ellesmere Port and in Poland: the decision on where the next model of the Astra will be built is due within the next 18 months.
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