On Saturday July 23rd 8000 marchers wound their way through Derby City Centre calling for the Prime Minister to rescind the award of the Thameslink rail carriage contract to Siemens and award it to Bombardier. The March and Rally attracted many people from Derby and representatives of trade unions from many areas of the Midlands. This issue is seen as a very important issue to save manufacturing jobs in general and to preserve our last British Train Manufacturer in Derby, thus providing jobs for our local workers. This Demonstration was very successful, attracted much well need publicity, thus putting pressure on this Coalition Government, Its very important that people continue to support this campaign until the Government Reverses its decision and we are successful in keeping the work in Derby. For those who are interested there will be a March for the Alternative Economic Policy at the Lib dem Conference in Birmingham on Sunday September 18th. For further details contact the PCS Regional Office on 01216434342, or your own Regional trade union office.
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