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Lay-offs and closures highlights

  • Lay-offs and closures / ‘Post-socialist mortality crisis’ proves that deindustrialisation kills

    The ruling classes stir up populism amongst deindustrialised populations in order to try to persuade workers to pin the blame for their hardship onto other workers.

    8 Sep 2023 , Lalkar

  • Britain / The collapse of Wilko

    Wilko stores across the country are expected to close over the next few weeks with the chain struggling to find a buyer.

    1 Sep 2023 , Class Consciousness Project

  • British politics / Communist message to Silk Mill rally: Ditch the Labour party!

    Don’t settle for social democracy when only scientific socialism has the answer!

    16 Jun 2023 ,

  • Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

    In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

    22 Jun 2022 ,

  • Disputes / Train strike: Britain could see the largest walk-out since the 1926 general strike

    Meanwhile, the government is considering adding to anti-trade-union legislation to try to outlaw the action before it begins.

    27 May 2022 , Reddit

  • Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

    When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

    23 Apr 2022 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis

    The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.

    30 Mar 2022 ,

  • Italy / Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back

    Workers demand an end to the dismantling and export of their industries and the protection of their rights to healthcare and a decent environment.

    8 Sep 2021 , Lalkar

  • Social wage / Unemployment and poverty set to rise as furlough ends and benefits are cut

    A brutal shock is in store for many workers as the temporary multi-tiered unemployment support system is slashed back to the bone.

    13 Jul 2021 , Proletarian

  • Pay and conditions / Bringing Kaplan to book: time to get organised in the gig economy

    A reminder that the whole reason for having trade unions is to fight the workers’ corner everywhere.

    21 Feb 2021 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Chester Road closure: No to GKN’s industrial vandalism!

    A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process.

    4 Feb 2021 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless figures mount as Paperchase is latest retail chain to fail

    As the economic crisis is exacerbated by repeated lockdowns, company after company is going to the wall.

    7 Jan 2021 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Sunak extends furlough till April as jobless stats sow panic

    The number of redundancies continues to climb inexorably each month, despite all efforts to massage the figures and soften the blow.

    23 Dec 2020 ,

  • Economy / Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle

    Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.

    19 Nov 2020 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan slashes workforce and pensions, poised to flee Sunderland altogether

    Blame Brexit; blame covid ... blame anything but the capitalist system.

    31 Jul 2020 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / P&O takes the money and runs

    The shipping company is laying off a thousand workers on the very routes it is being paid public money to operate.

    29 Jun 2020 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Imperial College sacking vital IT workers

    University managers plan to axe more than half their IT staff, despite their heroic work in enabling vital pandemic research.

    27 Jun 2020 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / British Gas and SPS are latest to announce big job losses

    As the economic crisis bites, employers are looking to cut not only jobs but also pay, pensions and everything else.

    25 Jun 2020 ,

  • Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

    After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

    16 Jun 2020 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Debenhams shafts its cafe workers

    Catering staff at the department store have been summarily dismissed without notice or redundancy pay.

    15 Jun 2020 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Thousands more to go at Rolls Royce’s Derby plant

    As more and more manufacturing jobs are being scrapped, workers are the victims of the downward spiral of capitalist crisis.

    6 Jun 2020 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

    As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

    24 May 2020 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / British Airways takes the money and runs

    The Covid-19 crisis is highlighting the necessity for public ownership of all our vital services.

    13 May 2020 ,

  • Capitalist crisis / Burying bad news: crash caused by overproduction not coronavirus

    The present economic crisis has been long in the making, but is being passed off as the result of the covid lockdown.

    29 Apr 2020 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / RIP FlyBe

    The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.

    9 Mar 2020 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / City leeches celebrate the demise of Thomas Cook

    Financial gamblers in the City are playing with loaded dice, deliberately pushing companies over the edge in order to get paid.

    6 Oct 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan to cull 12,500 jobs globally as Chinese car market stalls

    The crisis of overproduction continues to wreak havoc with workers’ lives.

    12 Aug 2019 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Fight against the closure of Ford Bridgend

    Workers are not to blame for the crisis; stop redundancies and demand nationalisation!

    17 Jun 2019 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / British Steel: overproduction crisis claims another scalp

    As thousands of workers lose their jobs, the vultures of Greybull Capital are standing at the front of the queue for ‘reimbursement’.

    3 Jun 2019 , Proletarian

  • Social wage / Fire Brigade Inc

    Cuts and outsourcing are part of the slow drive towards total privatisation of this essential service.

    12 Apr 2019 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / Interserve: another outsourcing giant hits the wall

    In the pursuit of monopoly profits, another building corporation turned ‘public service provider’ has gone bust – and the public will be picking up the tab.

    6 Apr 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Honda doesn’t blame Brexit

    The cover is blown on the attempt to blame everything on Brexit as Honda’s CEO denies that the Swindon closure has anything to do with Brexit uncertainty.

    28 Feb 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobs massacre at Jaguar Land Rover confirmed

    Overproduction not Brexit is to blame. But if there really are too many cars in the world, what are workers to do?

    16 Jan 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Carillion: lawyers make hay whilst workers wait for pay

    As workers try to get recompense for lost jobs and wages, the whole crooked business of outsourcing is being exposed to view.

    14 Jan 2019 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Defend Brexit and manufacturing jobs

    Overproduction in the car industry is being blamed on ‘Brexit uncertainty’ in an effort to justify reversing the EU referendum result.

    9 Jan 2019 , Birmingham Worker

  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,

  • Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

    The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

    21 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker

  • Lay-offs and closures / Support Asda Queslett workers’ fight for jobs

    Don’t let machines come before jobs, nor profit before people.

    19 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker

  • Lay-offs and closures / Ford plans jobs massacre

    Overproduction is affecting the car industry severely, as glutted markets take their toll on sales and workers are thrown to the wall.

    18 Oct 2018 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Support Birmingham’s homecare workers

    Before Labour councillors privatise the service completely.

    19 Sep 2018 , Birmingham Worker

  • Lay-offs and closures / More redundancies in the Midlands: Rolls-Royce and JLR

    The world crisis of overproduction is far from over.

    12 Aug 2018 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / The collapse of Carillion

    Financial and political commentators are suddenly ‘discovering’ that PFI and the privatisation of services might not be such a good deal after all.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian

  • Disputes / Binmen on strike in Birmingham

    More council cuts = more rats! Birmingham’s refuse workers are mounting strong resistance to the latest austerity plans of the city’s Labour-led council.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian

  • British politics / Birmingham council in financial crisis

    A strike by binmen and other workers is inevitable.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / Tata: the vultures circle

    While the capitalist crisis continues to destroy workers' lives, our union leaders are still trying to push us down the blind alley of support for British imperialism.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian

  • Lay-offs and closures / BHS workers facing loss of jobs and pensions

    This is not the ‘unacceptable face’ of capitalism; capitalism itself is unacceptable.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian

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Lay-offs and closures theory

  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

    12 Mar 2019, Lalkar

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