Remploy workers to strike
Workers at two Remploy sites will strike on 26 January against the semi-privatisation of their factories. Remploy, a government-owned manufacturing company established in 1945 specifically to provide protected employment for disabled workers, has faced a number of attacks – including part-privatisations and sell-offs – in recent years. Now its Chesterfield and Springburn (Glasgow) sites face merger with private orthotics firm Websters to create a new part-private company, R Healthcare. As a result, non-disabled apprentices and shopfloor workers have been taken on with substantially worse pay...