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UNIONS are demanding reassurance for “hard-hit” Irish workers after aerospace firm Bombardier announced it will be selling off operations yesterday.
The company said it will divest its Belfast and Morocco businesses in a move to “optimise its global manufacturing footprint.”
Bombardier employs around 3,600 staff in its five factories in the north of Ireland.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
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