Save 600 jobs at Vestas

Vestas Blades UK (one of the UK’s largest wind farms) closed on 31st July. Six-hundred jobs were lost immediately, many more that depend on the farm will follow. This makes no sense environmentally or socially.

The government has just announced a major expansion of renewable energy including wind power. We are calling on Vestas to keep the factories open, saving jobs and offering those who want to leave a better redundancy deal.

We are calling on the government to intervene to save jobs at Vestas - through nationalisation if that is what it takes - to show that it is serious about saving the planet.

What you can do:

Send messages of support from yourself or your organisation to: savevestas@googlemail.com.

Send a donation. Cheques payable to:Ryde and East Wight Trades Union Council, 22 Church Lane, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 2NB

Contact energy minister Ed Miliband:Email: MILIBANDE@parliament.uk

His phone number in his constituency is 01302 875 462, at Westminster, 020 7219 4778.
Flood him with calls for the government to take over the Vestas factory and keep it producing, under new management.

For more info visit:

Save Vestas

Guardian website

Campaign Against Climate Change

Save Vestas on Twitter