Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of the UK's biggest union, Unite, has today (Thursday) written to the Chairman of BMW's Board of Management to protest in the strongest possible terms his union's "outrage" at the manner in which 330 BMW agency workers were summarily sacked earlier this week - and warned the German car company that there will be no further repeats of last Monday's disgraceful sackings.
BMW is seeking to sack a total of 850 agency workers in total at its Cowley plant, 330 of whom were dismissed one hour before their shift finished on Monday of this week. The balance, 520 workers, face the sack when they return to work this coming Monday.
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