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Remploy factory workers from north west arrive in Bournemouth
Peter Devine25/ 9/2007
PLANS to close up to six Remploy factories across the North West has caused furious protests at the Labour Party.Conference in Bournemouth.
Demonstrators from across the region keen to see the nearly 3,000 jobs retained nationwide gathered close to the Bournemouth Convention Centre to make their opposition known.
They included some of the 2,300 disabled workers and representatives from threatened factories in Manchester and Stockport Remploy management plan to make the workers redundant at the end of the year.
Wigan based Brian Davies, the national deputy convenor for Remploy said: "The message to Labour is that Remploy workers do have a future.
"We say to Gordon Brown we want him to listen and we are not going to go away. We have no intention of moving from our factories and they will have to bring in the tanks to get us out because we are going nowhere."
Phil Davies the national officer of the GMB said: "It's about preserving jobs and providing choices in factories based employment for disabled people. The government seems hooked on the idea of moving everyone into the mainstream but some of our workers have tried that and it doesn't work. What we want is for the government to help us with job procurement and a restructuring of the whole of Remploy."
Remploy manufactures everything from chemical warfare suits for troops in war zones to mattresses for Ikea.
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