MORE than 120 mill workers from the Buckfastleigh and Ashburton areas have spent the first week of their unemployment signing on.They have swapped a £300 weekly pay packet for benefit of just £140 a fortnight.Their initial experience of life without work at the Buckfast Spinning Company descended into chaos when they returned to their hastily vacated work place just 48 hours later to fill in redundancy forms and be briefed about finding alternative work.The work site has since been abandoned, with all points of entry locked up by administrators called in after the collapse of Axminster Carpets last week.
Axed mill staff ‘close to tears’ at job forum
Friday 15th March 2013 12:00 am





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