Tue 19 Feb 2019 9:38AM
Swindon
Simon Carter
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I wonder if anyone has mentioned the two words worker and coop in Swindon?. They must have all the skills, plus two years to get organised, & a shed load of collective redundancy money to come. Strikes me as an opportunity, not the disaster as the media has portrayed it. .
Cath M in Bentley (A Commune in the North/Radical Routes/Platform6) Sat 23 Feb 2019 9:42AM
Cath M in Bentley (A Commune in the North/Radical Routes/Platform6) Sat 23 Feb 2019 9:43AM
Ian Hewitt from CLES (Centre for Local Economic Strategy) is doing a workshop on the New Lucas Plan at https://waysforward.coop/ conference, 5th April, Manchester
Nathan Brown (Co-op Culture) Sat 23 Feb 2019 1:20PM
Co-op Futures covers Swindon. They may be working away at trying to get involved with the consultation process. Getting to speak to workers facing redundancy about co-ops as an option could result in new worker co-ops
bob cannell · Fri 22 Feb 2019 4:38PM
The swindon honda plant produces an obsolete model. Other production has been taken back to japan as japanese companies do.The factory is set up to produce infernal combustion engined cars which will be obsolete and unsaleable in about 11 years. Honda say electric car production requirements will be very different.
Rover tried to limp on selling obsolete Hondas rebadged for several years until the inevitable happened. Triumph Meriden did exactly the same. With enough capital investment, a new factory and new models, Triumph is once again a success but not as a coop.
Lets hope Honda are more responsible than Rover who smashed up the production lines in Longbridge as workers were leaving at the other end, to prevent any reuse. Though I think big car factories are going the same way as shipyards and deep coal mines.
Bob