The Remploy factories in Aintree and Birkenhead (CCU) are taking strike action on 6th and 7th February.
According to Unite, which together with the GMB organises Remploy workers:
The Remploy Consortium of Trade Unions (Unite, GMB and Community) has vowed to fight the closure of 28 Remploy factories, including Aintree and Birkenhead and the jobs of its’ employees. Remploy is the UK’s biggest employer of disabled people and employs over 5,000 disabled workers in 82 factories nationally...
73% of workers taking part in the ballot at Aintree voted in favour of strike action and 100% of workers taking part in the ballot at Birkenhead voted in favour of strike action.
Unite and GMB members at Remploy's Aintree and Central Cutting Unit Birkenhead plants are the first of 28 sites to be balloted on industrial action over plans to close Remploy factories across the UK.
Aintree works in toiletries and contract packaging whilst the Birkenhead site uses the most advanced computerised cutting equipment to manufacture garments such as chemical and biological warfare suits for the MOD, stab vests for the Police, marine safety wear, health care products as well as supplying major retailers including Barbour, Berghaus, and IKEA.
Aintree Site:
Wareing Road,
Aintree Trading Estate
Liverpool, Merseyside,
England L9 7AX.
Birkenhead Site:
Unit 2, Hickmans Road,
West Float Industrial Estate,
Birkenhead,
Merseyside, CH41 1JH