Plans to organise a demonstration in Oxford over job cuts at BMW will be discussed a meeting in the Town Hall tonight.
Unions representing workers at both the Cowley plant and Royal Mail’s distribution centre in Cowley, where hundreds of jobs are set to shift to Swindon in the summer, have called the meeting, called ‘Jobs and Justice: Put People First’. It starts at 7pm.
Bill MacKeith, assistant secretary of the Oxford & District Trades Union Council, said workers would have the chance to speak from the floor after union representatives had made speeches.
He said: “The idea is to give support to workers at BMW, those still there and those who have been sacked.”
Mr MacKeith also confirmed a city centre demonstration was planned for Saturday, March 7.
Last week, BMW announced 850 agency workers were being laid off because of the slump in Mini sales.
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