Diageo workers demand boss talks

Oct 12 2009

Diageo workers have demanded a meeting with the drinks firm's chief executive so that he can explain why the company is axing two of its plants in Kilmarnock and Glasgow.

The drinks giant announced last month it was pressing ahead with the closure of its Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock and the Port Dundas grain distillery in Glasgow - affecting 900 workers across the two sites.

Workers have written to chief executive Paul Walsh, telling him they were "very disappointed and angry" that the firm was not spending more time looking at an alternative business plan, drawn up by a taskforce consisting of politicians, trade unions, local councils and Scottish Enterprise.