People queued up to sign a Scottish Socialist Party petition last Friday and Saturday in Livingston, near Bathgate, against the threats to close the plant announced last week. We've been a loyal workforce. Motorola is to blame for this. It's fear and intimidation with the big companies.
Human priorities come well down in the system.
Blair is just making the capitalist system work. If jobs go as a result of this it is because we are not organised enough. This is just one of a series of massive layoffs to hit the area in the last two years. As well as the 3,200 jobs at the plant, there are hundreds of other jobs that would be lost in the local community from the loss of wages. It doesn't seem so long ago now that the politicians were beaming about how these new high-tech industries would save Scotland from being a wasteland.