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UNITE demanded an “urgent meeting” with beer barons Greene King yesterday after it emerged that the company is being taken over by a property developer.
The union has demanded the company assure workers that their jobs will be secured after it was announced the brewery has been sold to CK Asset Holdings for £2.7 billion.
The Suffolk-based company, which was founded in 1799, currently owns around 2,700 pubs across the country.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership
