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Manufacturing workers to protest in Birmingham
Saturday 16th May 2009, 10:39AM BST.
Workers in Birmingham’s manufacturing industry are set to stage a protest today to urge the government to protect jobs during the recession.
The protest led by the Unite Union will see employees from companies such as Corus, Jaguar, Vauxhall, United Biscuits, LDV and Visteon demand action to keep jobs in the country’s industrial centre of Birmingham.
Speaking at the rally, Unite’s joint general secretary Derek Simpson will say that billions of pounds were spent to assist the country’s banks but no assistance was available for those losing their jobs or homes in the broader economy.
The union says that 250,000 people had joined the dole queue in the last few months and warned that the country risked creating a generation of young, unemployed people if measures were not taken to protect jobs.
Unite will call on the government to put in place a working subsidy to keep people in work, to boost aid from banks to businesses and to provide workers with greater protection from redundancy at the rally.
Last week, BT and Legal and General announced thousands of job cuts. Official figures now put unemployment in the country at 2.2 million.
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