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18
May 2009
In February 2009, there
was anger among workers at Cowley, when BMW confirmed 850
jobs were being cut. Most of those chucked out with the scrap
were agency workers. Almost a third of the Cowley workforce
are agency staff and some complained they would not receive
any redundancy pay.
Tony Woodley, joint leader
of the Unite union, said:
"The
manner in which these cuts were announced today was disgraceful
… targeting agency workers who have no rights to redundancy
pay, is blatant opportunism on BMW's part and nothing short
of scandalous. BMW's parent company couldn't attempt this
in Germany because it would be illegal to do so.”
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