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VAUXHALL’S “brand” and “committed workforce” are highly valued, Business Secretary Greg Clark was told during crunch talks in Paris over the future of thousands of British jobs.
Mr Clark travelled to France for meetings with his French counterpart and board members of PSA Group, which manufactures Peugot and Citroen, over its mooted takeover of General Motors’s loss-making European operation.
The deal would include GM marque Vauxhall, which has plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton employing around 3,500 staff.
Mr Clark insisted the talks had been “constructive.”
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
SHARON GRAHAM reflects on the lessons of Murdoch’s confrontation with print workers – and argues that, in an age of AI, automation and net zero, only early organisation, collective power and planning can stop history repeating itself
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today