Post by Steve on Jan 10, 2005 13:57:52 GMT
Anybody know anything about this?
www.amicustheunion.org/main.asp?page=1176
Burnley workers shut out of paper plant on New Year return
6 January 2005
Workers at a Burnley paper conversion plant returned to work on Tuesday 4 January to find themselves locked out of their plant.
The 21 staff at the Burnley Conversion, formerly the Papermarc Group, have turned up for work every morning since but have not been told if they have lost their jobs or even if they can expect to be paid tomorrow.
Amicus, which represents all 21 staff at Burnley Conversion, said that the plant was sold by the administrators to a local management team on 10 December and that the workers were last paid by the new owners on 31 December. The union has asked repeatedly for details of the new owners but have not been notified although Clive Ward, the former engineering manager at the plant under Croftacre Holdings, was known to be the Managing Director appointed in December for new owners, Burnley Conversion.
It is rumoured that the plant has been sold back to former owners Croftacre Holdings Ltd for £1 and the plant is going to be put into administration. Amicus has had no response from Burnley Conversion to its questions regarding the new ownership or future of the plant.
Amicus officer, Louisa Bull, said: 'Our members have been treated with utter contempt by whoever is behind this and by the administration system. They have endured months of insecurity through the administration and buy out process last summer and this is how they are being rewarded.
'We were promised full information and consultation rights by the administrators and by the owners appointed in the summer but our members have literally been sold out and are left in a situation where we don't even know who their employer is. This could not happen in any other country European country and it is a deplorable way to treat loyal and hard working staff.'
Amicus says that BTE, the administrator that sold the Papermarc Group to Croftacre Holdings Ltd two years ago has been approached to put Burnley Conversion's only customer, Merton Packaging Employment in Merton, South Wales into liquidation.
Three hundred jobs were lost at Croftacre's paper mill in Burnley last summer when the company went into administration.
www.amicustheunion.org/main.asp?page=1176
Burnley workers shut out of paper plant on New Year return
6 January 2005
Workers at a Burnley paper conversion plant returned to work on Tuesday 4 January to find themselves locked out of their plant.
The 21 staff at the Burnley Conversion, formerly the Papermarc Group, have turned up for work every morning since but have not been told if they have lost their jobs or even if they can expect to be paid tomorrow.
Amicus, which represents all 21 staff at Burnley Conversion, said that the plant was sold by the administrators to a local management team on 10 December and that the workers were last paid by the new owners on 31 December. The union has asked repeatedly for details of the new owners but have not been notified although Clive Ward, the former engineering manager at the plant under Croftacre Holdings, was known to be the Managing Director appointed in December for new owners, Burnley Conversion.
It is rumoured that the plant has been sold back to former owners Croftacre Holdings Ltd for £1 and the plant is going to be put into administration. Amicus has had no response from Burnley Conversion to its questions regarding the new ownership or future of the plant.
Amicus officer, Louisa Bull, said: 'Our members have been treated with utter contempt by whoever is behind this and by the administration system. They have endured months of insecurity through the administration and buy out process last summer and this is how they are being rewarded.
'We were promised full information and consultation rights by the administrators and by the owners appointed in the summer but our members have literally been sold out and are left in a situation where we don't even know who their employer is. This could not happen in any other country European country and it is a deplorable way to treat loyal and hard working staff.'
Amicus says that BTE, the administrator that sold the Papermarc Group to Croftacre Holdings Ltd two years ago has been approached to put Burnley Conversion's only customer, Merton Packaging Employment in Merton, South Wales into liquidation.
Three hundred jobs were lost at Croftacre's paper mill in Burnley last summer when the company went into administration.
