Visteon factory worker occupations mini documentary

Hundreds of workers occupied to Visteon car manufacturing factories in Britain after the management closed them down, laying off the entire workforce with no notice, violating their contracts.

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This is a really good mini

This is a really good mini documentary

Yeah that's excellent

Yeah that's excellent :)

Hi Manuel. Quote: It is

Hi Manuel.

It is thought that this is the first factory occupation in Britain since the 1970's.

See here
http://libcom.org/forums/news/dundee-factory-occupation-05032009

and

and here
http://libcom.org/forums/news/factory-occupation-londonderry-25112008

Thanks guys for your

Thanks guys for your comments!

And this sentence above must have been a slip of the memory and hurry. We even reported on our website about Dundee. Thanks for pointing it out, we corrected it on other places.

fantastic! very well done.

fantastic! very well done.

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