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[email protected] Workers have decided to take their - and the planet’s fate into their own hands and occupy the Vestas Wind Turbine factory on the Isle of Wight that is threatened with closure. They have occupied the Vestas plant in Newport. Phil Thornhill from Campaign against Climate Change said “The workers at Vestas are not standing by whilst the government fails to safeguard both their livelihoods and the health of the planet. In fighting for their jobs they are also showing that ordinary people will not let the government get away with ‘green jobs’ rhetoric without backing it up with real action. If the government can spend billions bailing out the banks and £2. 3 billion in loan guarantees to support the UK car industry – they can definitely step in to save the infrastructure we are really going to need prevent a climate catastrophe.” Campaign against Climate Change www.campaigncc.org Phil Thornhill, National Coordinator, [email protected] 07903 316 331 Jonathan Neale, Secretary (on the Isle of Wight) 07913 904 646 |