DAILY EXPRESS
NEW CARS PILE UP IN ROVER STRIKE
More than 2,500 new Rovers are baking in the sun at a long-term car parkcreated by strikers. The cars, worth £26 million, have been standing idle for five weeks in a row over sackings. A 24-hour, picket has prevented delivery drivers taking any from the 32-acre open air site at Milton, near Didcot, Oxfordshire.
The centre normally distributes all Rover’s models to London and the South East. But now replacements are being shipped hundreds of extra miles from a strike-free depot in Ely, Cambridgeshire. The dispute began when Liverpool-based Mainland Car Deliveries sacked nine staff from their Oxfordshire depot.
Union officials claim they were dismissed as part of a cost-cutting drive.Twenty eight fellow workers at Milton came out on strike to get them reinstated and were also fired. They have been manning pickets ever since. Rover claim the strike has not affected distribution.
Keith Adams
Is the Editor of the Parkers website and price guide, formerly editor of Classic Car Weekly, and launch editor/creator of Modern Classics magazine. Has contributed to various motoring titles including Octane, Practical Classics, Evo, Honest John, CAR magazine, Autocar, Pistonheads, Diesel Car, Practical Performance Car, Performance French Car, Car Mechanics, Jaguar World Monthly, MG Enthusiast, Modern MINI, Practical Classics, Fifth Gear Website, Radio 4, and the the Motoring Independent...
Likes 'conditionally challenged' motors and taking them on unfeasible adventures all across Europe.
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