Vestas Workers Occupy Factory

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 30 Jul 2009, 23:33

ziggy12345 wrote:So Vestas want to shut a plant making turbine blades in the Isle white and move production to Colorado due to the fact that the blades will be used in wind farms in Colorado and therefore will not waste huge amounts of fossil fuels in shipping the blades to the USA and lots of green activists are trying to stop this. Is it only me who sees the irony in this?

But if it was your job at stake, you lived in a place where you might have trouble getting another job, and you had the skills, experience and a factory full of equipment for making a product that the government have just announced they want to create a big market for, wouldn't you see a certain irony in being put on the dole?

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 31 Jul 2009, 08:07

The reason why they are making blades for USA is that there is not much of a market in UK because of our NUIMBYs. Not ironic, just stupid. But don't blame Vestas, blame the great British citizenry.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 31 Jul 2009, 11:14

...along with the union-hating owners.

This 'recession' provides some great excuses, don't it?

Mark · Post by **Mark** » 12 Feb 2010, 08:59

All's well that ends well...........

Vestas workers on life after redundancy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 508958.stm

fifthcolumn · Post by **fifthcolumn** » 12 Feb 2010, 17:57

Since we're throwing money around on bailouts and infrastructure: is not a home grown wind turbine factory an ESSENTIAL piece of infrastructure for both national defense and resilience?

I'd have thought it would be simple risk management to take over the factory.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 12 Feb 2010, 18:47

The Labour government let the Vestas factory close because it was on the Isle of Wight which doesn't vote Labour. The new wind turbine factory will be in the North East which does vote labour.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 13 Feb 2010, 00:04

...until the remaining Vestas workers move up there to get the new jobs and...not vote Labour

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 14 Feb 2010, 04:15

I don't think the few hundred Vestas workers will make much of a dent in the Labour majorities "oop North".

Would you move from the Isle of Wight to Newcastle? Don't think I would but then I'm a namby pamby southerner who couldn't handle the cold.