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Lessons to be learnt from the demise of Appledore shipyard
We need to reinvest, reopen Appledore, and start a new chapter for Britain’s world-class shipbuilding industry, writes HEATHCLIFFE PETTIFER
Instead of mothballing our shipbuilding industry, Britain should be investing and expanding
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
THE sad and, in Unite’s view, unnecessary closure of the Appledore shipyard on March 15 after 164 years of existence, raises important questions about how seriously the government takes the future of shipbuilding in Britain and, more generally, the absence of the much-vaunted industrial strategy.
On a human level, the loss of the final skilled 200 jobs at the yard on the River Torridge pierces the heart of this North Devon community. I feel that pain acutely as I worked at the yard for nearly 20 years before becoming a Unite official.
The emotional devastation by the closure decision by Babcock International is compounded by the hard economic fact that the area has some of the lowest weekly earnings in the whole of Britain, so the opportunities for decently paid work to replace the jobs, which have been lost, are scarce
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