BRITISH Aerospace and Rolls Royce workers from Lancashire joined a major rally in London today to protest against the closure of plants and a total of 14,000 redundancies.
A march was to be followed by a lobby of Parliament and a rally in Westminster.
Alex Ferry, secretary of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, said: "We are determined to halt these closures and redundancies."
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