Amicus on Peugeot Coventry Job Losses

LONDON, March 21 -- Amicus Regional Officer, Roger Maddison said of the 850 job losses announced at the Peugeot plant in Coventry at the weekend:

"This is more devastating news for Coventry where nearly 1,400 car manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past year. We have asked for an urgent meeting with the company to discuss terms but we will not accept anything less than the very best packages for our members and no compulsory redundancies.

"Peugeot are cutting production of the 206 by a similar amount at their plants in France but no jobs are being shed there. UK manufacturing must have employment protection on a par with that in the rest of Europe if workers here are to stop being the easy touch they are now when it comes to job cuts."