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"Mr President, I want to raise the case of a company in my constituency. Hygrade – a subsidiary of the Danish company Tulip – is proposing to close two factories in Chard and Chippenham with the loss of 300 and 500 jobs respectively. This will devastate those two market towns. At the moment they are going through a consultation on the proposed closures, which is frankly farcical. Already residents in new neighbouring housing in Chippenham have guarantees in their mortgages that the company will close. In Chard, it is already planning to remove equipment. I hope you will raise that point with the Commission.
At the same time, this is a company that is not facing bankruptcy but is making massive profits. In the negotiations, it is offering people who have been loyal to it for as long as 22 years the minimum redundancy payment available.
It supplies its goods and services mainly to the Co-op and Tesco – they are food processing companies. I hope that people will put pressure on those companies, which talk very often about fair trade, to ensure that the workers at the factories that supply them get a fair deal."@en1
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