SCOTLAND / AGILITYPR.NEWS / July 10, 2020 / Unite Scotland has today (10 July) reacted to the announcement by XPO Logistics that it plans to close its distribution site at Eurocentral and transfer the work to Heywood in England with the loss of around 200 jobs.

The warehouse and distribution site at Mossend provides distribution services exclusively for Argos and if the proposal goes ahead there would be no workers left at the site by 7 January 2021. XPO Logistics intend to transfer volumes of work from its Eurocentral site to England starting in September.

Kenny Jordan, Unite regional officer, said: “The news from XPO Logistics is a bitter blow to the workforce of around 200. The timescales and timing of this announcement comes as a shock because the Mossend site based at Eurocentral has been outperforming other distribution sites for some time now. Unite will exhaust every avenue to retain these jobs because there is no logical business reason for this decision and our members will have every support possible from their trade union.”  

Unite Scotland is the country’s biggest and most diverse trade union with around 150,000 members. The union is led in Scotland by Pat Rafferty.