Militant/Hugh Robertson

CAMBUSLANG, Scotland—More than 150 workers marched through the main street of this town near Glasgow November 22 and rallied in front of the Hoover vacuum cleaner plant here to protest the company’s proposal to close the factory and lay off more than 200 workers. Hoover workers hit the streets on successive Saturdays to collect 4,000 signatures on a petition in support of their fight. Trade unionists from the local steel works and a shipyard in Govan, Glasgow, brought their banners. Hoover says it will move the work to plants in China and Wales. Leaders of Amicus, the workers’ union, are pressing government agencies to subsidize Hoover to keep some of the operation open and retain some of the jobs Hoover plans to cut. David Lang, who has worked at the plant for 20 years, said, “We have to show the ownership that we’re not going to sit here and take it.”  
 
 
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