London Rally Supports Vestas Workers - 6 Aug
Peter Marshall | 07.08.2009 10:33 | Climate Chaos | Workers' Movements
Vestas worker
PCS banner getting wet
Jenny Jones arrives on her bike
Green Party - Workers for the World Unite!
RMT have supported Vestas workers - and made members
Billy Hayes, CWU
Michael Meacher, MP
Jenny Jones, Green Party
Despite the government having spent thousands of billions propping up the banks it is unwilling to put up the much smaller amounts needed to support green industries. The problems of Vestas are indeed very much of the Government's making, with its failure to put it's money where its mouth is on green energy policies, relying on hot air rather than support for wind power and other alternative energies.
Making wind turbines is a profitable business, and will become even more so, but unless action is taken - such as nationalising Vestas, at least (as with the banks) on a temporary basis, the UK will be buying them from abroad rather than making money selling them to the rest of the world.
This story is also on Demotix, and I'll put more pictures on My London Diary next week:
http://mylondondiary.co.uk/2009/08/aug.htm
Peter Marshall
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