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
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits


