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  • 2,300 jobs lost Peugeot shuts car plant

    04/18/2006 2:22:28 PM PDT · by M. Espinola · 53 replies · 1,115+ views
    Telegraph ^ | 4-18-06
    French car giant Peugeot-Citroen is to end production at one of its main UK factories with the loss of 2,300 jobs. The factory at Ryton in Coventry will stop making the Peugeot 206 model next year. The decision was given to union officials who had been summoned to a meeting with company bosses. Union sources said they had been fearing bad news but expressed shock at the scale of the announcement. Derek Simpson, general secretary of Amicus, said: "This is disastrous news for British manufacturing. It is inconceivable that workers in France would be laid off on this scale....