Packaging workers locked out
Bosses at the Transfoods food packaging plant in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, have joined employers at the Mayr-Melnhof Packaging plant in Bootle in locking out hundreds of workers after employees’ protests against redundancies. Just 38 days after new management took over the factory, workers were told that work would be moving to a site in Bodmin, Cornwall. The plant was summarily closed and workers found themselves locked out. Unite, the workers’ union, had agreed a redundancy package but it now looks as if bosses will renege on that agreement and pay the 218 workers likely to lose their jobs...