Fewer Jobs From Wind? Vestas wins court order to stop sit-in

Submitted by hsb on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 8:27am.

The story: Vestas (the largest manufacturer of turbines world-wide) announces a plan to close a plant on the Isle of Wight as part of their plan to cut 1900 jobs, or 9% of their workforce. Workers protest by staging a sit-in. Vestas wins court order to have them removed.

Read here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8183323.stm
and here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8022688.stm

On Sun, 08/23/2009 - 4:05am, visitorfromclinton said:

Good thing this has nothing to do whatsovever with the north country job market.