Union proposal to save 500 jobs at Gallaher's: Ballymena cigarette factory to close by 2017

 

(Telegraph) Plans to save some 500 jobs at Ballymena cigarette factory JTI Gallaher's have been put forward by the UK's biggest trade union.
Unite's proposal for the Japanese-owned Lisnafillan plant would see it become a 'centre of excellence for pouch tobacco and cigar production'.
Last month it was announced that 876 jobs were set to go at the Ballymena plant - which has been producing tobacco for more than 150 years. Continued

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