Vestas: maintain and extend the pickets!
"Vestas, this is only the start, you will lose", read the sign which occupying workers put up at the wind turbine blade factory at Newport, Isle of Wight, before they were evicted at midday on Friday 7 August, on the 18th day of their occupation. Two workers abseiled down from the management offices on a rope, and one jumped down; three others came out with the bailiffs. (Others have come out individually, or in small groups, over the last two and a half weeks). A large crowd of workers and supporters greeted them, including some 25 who had responded to an emergency call from Workers' Climate...