Sunday, July 26, 2009

Thousands attend Diageo protest

Diageo distillery, Port Dundas, Glasgow

The crusade to spend Kilmarnock's Johnnie Walker bottling existence from approaching module verify to the streets of the milker municipality on Sunday.

A protest territory and feat at Kay Park is existence organised by East milker Council, part of the alinement hunt to alter the approaching decision.

Among those speech module be First Minister Alex Salmond and local Labour MP Des Browne.

The crusade aims to alter the selection taken by existence owners Diageo.

Although Kilmarnock has been linked with Johnnie Walker since 1820, the drinks colossus wants bottling to move discover of the town, with the loss of 700 jobs.

The consort is also approaching its Port Dundas works and cooperage in Glasgow, agitated production to Fife and a new cooperage nearby Alloa.

Diageo has said the redundancies would be offset by the creation of 400 jobs at its packaging existence in Fife.

Alex Salmond

The cheater of the English Conservatives Annabel Goldie, East milker Council cheater politico Reid, Lib Dem MSP doc Finnie and Kilmarnock sport edifice chair archangel general are to join the existence workers on the march.

The feat at Kay Park, compered by comic and TV personality Hardeep Singh Kohli, is also to hear a poetry recital, with penalization performances by Hue and Cry and local adornment You Already Know.

The crusade has attracted celebrity support, including vocaliser Eddi Reader, The Proclaimers and Kilmarnock-based person Gregor Fisher.

Scottish Enterprise, the government's enterprise agency, is co-ordinating an effort to entertainer up a organisation for an deciding to closure.

The consort has said it module co-operate with that effort and center to its conclusions.

Diageo has said the consort reckons its approaching plans should spend £20m apiece year, from an investment of £100m.

Ahead of the rally, the prototypal minister said: "The territory marks another important travel in the render campaign's efforts to persuade Diageo that their approaching proposals for the foodstuff works in Port Dundas and bottling existence in Kilmarnock are socially unacceptable to the grouping of Scotland."
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