Monsanto sack 20 p.c. of labour in Wrexham

THE AMERICAN-owned pany has announced that 250 men will be sacked from its Cefn Mawr works, near Wrexham.

The redundancies will be carried out over the next two months. In one blow the company is axing just over 20 per cent of its 1,200-strong work force at Cefn Mawr.

Already number of departments at the plant are working five-day instead of seven-day weeks.

A company spokesman said the redundancies were part of 'a streamlining programme to ensure that the works could maintain their viable position the Monsanto Europe This statematt Common illustrates what Market entry will mean for British workers: in their SO-called "streamlining' and 'rationalization' for the European markets, workers in this country are to be thrown on the scrap-heap.

The statement said: 'The redundancies are regretted."

Monsanto of St Louis, Missouri, is the 58th largest US corporation. The American parent company had a net income last vear of £32m and sales amounting to £815m.

'Protest'

Tom Jones, Welsh secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said his union would make a strong protest' against the company's decision.

*From the union side we have done everything possible to raise productivitype but the rewards seem more redundancies.

'This is unfair, particularly when unemployment 'in the Wrexham area is already more than 6 per cent. The company has a special social responsibility to the Cefn Mawr area which has given them a very good labour force and very little trouble' When the Liverpool "Daily Post' asked what he was planning, Jones said he wanted further information first. Many questions would have to be asked!

Monsanto men, are asking questions about the local trade union leader who described these massive job cuts as 'disheartening'.

PRESIDENT Dorticos of Cuba has returned home after a week in Moscow largely devoted to patching up differences with the Soviet bureaucracy resulting from Castro's policies.

At a dinner given in his honour by Brezhney and Kosygin it was revealed that talks are to, begin on a new trade agreement. Cuba badly needs more Russian aid order to meet growing economic difficulties.

Even paper to print Castro's jumbo-size speeches is running short. 'Granma', Havana's only morning daily, has had to cut its pages from eight to four.

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