Diageo workers have written to their chief executive Paul Walsh asking him to meet them to explain why the company is closing its plants in Glasgow and Kilmarnock.
The comments follow Diageo’s announcement last month that is was pressing ahead with the closures of its Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock and the Port Dundas grain distillery, with the loss of 900 jobs, after rejecting the Scottish government’s calls for an alternative business plan.
In a letter, the workers said: “We were very disappointed and angry to learn that the company is not prepared to spend any more time examining the trade union alternative business plan and has rejected it as not providing the levels of savings and cost cutting that Diageo is demanding from the Scottish plants
