Efforts to save jobs and continue trade at the Mortons Rolls factory in Drumchapel have been backed by councillors, who say news of the closure is a “devastating blow”.
News that Mortons Rolls was to cease trading broke on Friday, putting 250 jobs at the bakery at risk. “We have hundreds of workers in our city who very publicly lost their livelihood last weekend and are quite rightly concerned about their financial security.” Bailie Patricia Ferguson put forward the Labour amendment, which acknowledged “it is the workers employed by the company who are most severely impacted”.
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