General Motors could be sued by unions over its decision to halt car production at the Luton plant in Bedfordshire – despite signing an agreement promising to build the new Vectra there, Sky News reported today.
Vauxhall owner GM is to close the Vectra plant in 2002, with the loss of about 2000 jobs.
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Sky News reported that union leaders had said their lawyers were looking at the document, signed in 1998 by Vauxhall, to see if they had a case.
But Vauxhall chairman, Nick Reilly, who was in Luton town hall to face a grilling before members of Parliament, denied it was legally binding, Sky said.
