Workers at PSA Peugeot Citroen’s UK plant have voted not to strike over plans to shut the factory in 2007, a union told the Reuters news agency.
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“This vote reflects the fact that many workers at Ryton wish to take redundancy and leave the company,” the Transport & General Workers Union (T&G) reportedly said in a statement.
The union said it would still campaign to keep open the plant near Coventry and would not rule out a boycott of Peugeot products in the UK, the report added, noting that PSA plans to close the [Peugeot 206] plant employing 2,300 people in 2007.
PSA, which has been battling with sluggish sales in its main markets in western Europe, said in April it could no longer afford to carry on investing in the Ryton plant due to high costs, Reuters added.
