[imc-scotland-discussion] WORLDbytes film: Visteon workers fight for a better deal

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Press Release: immediate

 

Visteon workers fight for a better deal

 

The UK education charity and its alternative news channel WORLDbytes has
released a filmed

report covering the Visteon protests in Enfield. The report draws out the
situation workers faced upon being made redundant and what prompted them to
take matters into their own hands and  occupy the car part factory. 

 

Interviews conducted directly after the workers left the occupation capture
the mood at the time: a great uncertainty about what the future holds yet
hope and defiance that ultimately led Visteon bosses to meet their demands. 

 

Interviewees include Paul Walker, a young father who worked at the plant for
21 years, who says in the report: "We're here for justice. We're here for
ourselves. We were all there for each other and we kept each other strong. I
think something good will come out of all this."

 

Ron Clarke, the former UNITE convenor at the plant, says "We forced the
company to the table. This is a major victory for people standing up for
their rights. Up and down this country factory after factory has been
closing down as manufacturing has been destroyed and people have just walked
away. But we're not going to walk away."

 

Also included are interviews with supporters, including Carol Vincent,
ex-Big Brother candidate, who turned up in solidarity as, she says: "this is
an unacceptable way of paying back your labour force who have built up your
profits."

 

As Britain heads deeper into recession and unemployment rises, this
WORLDbytes report provides timely coverage of a group of people who refused
to accept the appalling terms that were given to them. 

 

As Paul Walker explains: "There's a lot of people struggling and it's only
going to get worse. Something like this needs to happen... When I see a
demonstration now, I'm going to want to know what it's about and I'll give
them my support. I didn't know before. I didn't understand. A lot of people,
their eyes were closed." 

 

The report is available to view at:
www.worldbytes.org/programmes/007/007_002.html

 

The filmed report "Visteon workers fight for a better deal" was created by
WORLDbytes, an alternative on-line channel of programmes created by young
volunteers which aims to get behind the headlines and promote a people-first
perspective on a wide-range of issues. The programme's credo is "don't shout
at the telly, change the message on it".

 

The WORLDbytes online channel is available at www.worldbytes.org

 

For more information and interviews contact:

 

Viv Regan
Ceri Dingle

Email: vivregan at btconnect.com                                  Email:
ceridingle at btconnect.com

Tel: +44 (0)7939 449 604 or +44 (0)20 8985 5435           Tel: +44 (0)7866
806 918

 

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