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There is a lot of people who feel the same way , they have given a lot of years service to a company and then to find out they might be out of work with in 18 month.

The meeting tomorrow might be a bit colourful i can't see Linde coming Clean on all this. They will say there is so many roomers going around and none of them are true. But KION did say that they had not sold to the Chines only for the day after to say they had


I hope for the workers at Mertyr it turns out well Its hard on the employment front in that part of the UK and it could do with out loosing more jobs. If KION are to move out then they should do a least one good thing and sell the facility to another forklift manufacture who would create employment in the area. If this was to happen there would be quite a lot of interest inside the industry in Merthyr but companies don't like to sell to there competitors especially such a modern facility with a good work force.
  • Posted 31 Jan 2013 06:51
  • Modified 31 Jan 2013 08:08 by poster
  • By Daveilift
  • joined 26 Oct'10 - 241 messages
  • west yorks, United Kingdom

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