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Workers strike over factory cuts

12.00.00am UTC (GMT +0000) Wed 13th Feb 2008

Workers fighting the closure of a North Yorkshire factory which employs disabled people are staging a 48-hour walk-out. A total of 28 Remploy sites across the UK, including six in Yorkshire, are being closed.

Staff at the York factory, which is due to close on 6 March, walked out on Wednesday morning. Remploy wants to put more disabled people into mainstream employment rather than in sheltered workshops.

The two-day strike will be followed by a 48-hour stoppage on Wednesday and Thursday next week. About 300 jobs are expected to be lost in Yorkshire when the Remploy factories close.

Staff in Barnsley, Bradford and Pontefract will be merged with other sites.

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