Vestas: debate on priorities for the next phase
About 150 people, about half Vestas workers, and about half either supporters from the local community or volunteers from the mainland who have come to camp at the factory entrance, attended a meeting on Sunday 9 August to discuss the future direction of the dispute now that the workers occupying the Vestas St Cross factory have bene forced to leave. Occupier Mark Smith, opening the meeting, stressed the priority of stepping up the picket at the St Cross plant and extending it towards a blockade of both Vestas factories (and maybe other Vestas sites) on the island. He also emphasised the...