Emergency Motion 1
Stop the Destruction of Scottish Manufacturing Jobs at Alexander Dennis
“That this Congress notes that Alexander Dennis (ADL) has recently announced the loss of 115 skilled manufacturing jobs at its Falkirk and Larbert sites, following previous threats potentially placing hundreds more Scottish jobs at risk.
“These job losses follow months of uncertainty for the workforce, including a period of furlough, while workers awaited the outcome of publicly funded zero?emission bus programmes.
“Despite millions of pounds of public investment, government procurement decisions have channelled substantial orders overseas, actively undermining Scottish manufacturing capacity.
“The loss of these jobs will devastate local communities, with every manufacturing job supporting up to four further jobs in the wider supply chain.
“These cuts are part of a wider pattern of industrial vandalism across central Scotland, where workers are paying the price for political failure and weak or non-existent industrial strategy.
“Congress believes that:
- The destruction of skilled green manufacturing jobs is a betrayal of working?class communities and exposes the reality behind claims of a so-called “just transition”.
- Public money must never be used to subsidise offshoring, redundancies, or corporate restructuring at workers’ expense.
- Governments who refuse to use their power to defend jobs are choosing capital over workers.
“Congress calls upon the General Council to:
- convey unequivocal solidarity to all union members at Alexander Dennis;
- demand immediate government intervention to halt redundancies and secure long?term manufacturing at Falkirk and Larbert;
- campaign for binding procurement rules that prioritise the retention and expansion of Scottish jobs, domestic production, and unionised workplaces;
- call upon the Scottish Government to investigate the potential to take control of the sites and establish a publicly owned Scottish bus company;
- support the unions at ADL in pursuing all political and industrial avenues to defend jobs; and
- work with affiliated unions to coordinate political, industrial, and public campaigning in defence of Scotland’s manufacturing jobs.”
Mover: Unite the Union
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