Vestas bosses win eviction order, but day of solidarity called for 12 August
Several hundred Vestas workers and supporters gathered outside Newport courthouse on Tuesday 4 August as Vestas bosses made their second attempt to get a possession order against the workers occupying their wind turbine blade factory at St Cross, Newport. That same morning, several activists had climbed to the roof of the smaller Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight, at East Cowes, to display a huge banner there reading: "Vestas workers' solidarity - In Occupation - Fight for green jobs". As Steve Stotesbury, spokesperson for the Vestas workers' RMT committee, said outside the courthouse when...