FORMER EMPLOYEE IMAGES: Visteon workers protesting at the force closure of the Belfast plant in 2009.
FORMER EMPLOYEE IMAGES: Visteon workers protesting at the force closure of the Belfast plant in 2009. Until 2000, the Belfast facility had been directly owned by Ford. The car giant then spun off its UK component manufacturing section - at Basildon, Enfield and Swansea as well as Belfast - and created Visteon. The workforce in Belfast and elsewhere went along with the change without demur on the basis of what they believed were explicit assurances that pay and terms of employment would continue to match conditions in Ford. When closure came, it was immediately clear that this wasn't the company's understanding at all. The occupation ended after seven weeks in partial victory. The jobs were lost, but Visteon and Ford were forced back into talks on redundancy pay and pensions.
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