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BRITAIN is being held back by the lack of a consistent industrial strategy, Labour said yesterday as unions sought an urgent meeting with ministers over job losses at Vauxhall.
The car giant has announced plans to shed 400 jobs at its Ellesmere Port site in Cheshire, more than a fifth of the factory’s workforce.
Bosses have blamed “challenging European market conditions and a declining passenger-car market.”
LOUISA BULL traces how derecognition, outsourcing and digitalisation reshaped the industry, weakened collective bargaining and created today’s precarious media workforce
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