MORE than 5000 Motorola workers in Europe, including those at the troubled Scottish mobile phone plant in Bathgate, could learn their fate early next week. According to German trade union sources, the staff at the Motorola facility near Hamburg, which has already lost 600 jobs this year, is expecting an announcement on Tuesday when the plant's supervisory board meets. The outcome would then be reported to the workforce.
Supervisory boards are powerful bodies built into the German labour laws.
They have an obligation to inform and consult with employees. While it would be 12 months before German workers' jobs could go, the UK plant could be shut down almost immediately after 90-day notices were served.