The Amicus and T&G unions have described their meetings with local MPs and the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) over the axing of a shift at Peugeot’s Coventry 206 plant as “constructive”.
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The meeting at the DTI was with manufacturing minister Jackie Smith and with representatives from Job Centre Plus and Advantage West Midlands.
Amicus officer, Roger Maddison, said: “We accept that Ryton cannot be operated profitably on a three shift system and are confident that a two shift system can be achieved without compulsory redundancies.
“We now want assurances from the French that they will guarantee new products for Ryton and the long-term future of the plant and hope to have a meeting with the French CEO, Jean-Martin Folz, before the end of the month.”
