General Motors staff strike over job losses threat

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LONDON (AFP) — Hundreds of workers at a General Motors car plant in Britain staged an unofficial strike following reports that the US giant plans to sack 1,000 British workers making Vauxhall vehicles, union officials said.

Up to 900 workers were involved in the walkout, which halted production at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, northwest England, they added.

The strike was called owing to comments reportedly made by GM's European President Carl-Peter Forster.

"Workers at Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port have walked out of the plant this morning as a reaction to extremely unhelpful comments made in the media today by Carl-Peter Forster... that the only way forward for the Ellesmere Port plant would be to take a shift out, which would result in up to a 1,000...