Support the Vestas Workers!
Submitted by Admin on 7 August, 2009 - 13:55From Becky Crocker, Regional Young Members' officer
Dear London Transport region
On Monday 3rd August, I visited the Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight, which its workers have occupied to stop its closure and save their 600 jobs.
Vestas is the only factory in Britain making blades for wind turbines.
Wind power is part of the government’s strategy for switching to 15% renewable energy by 2020. But the private company Vestas have calculated they can make more money by moving their factory elsewhere: profit comes first and jobs and the environment second.