Since December, Motorola has announced plans for 26,000 layoffs from a workforce that numbered 147,000 when the cuts began. The Bathgate news comes just two weeks after Motorola reported its first ...

In 1992, the American company Motorola opened a phone manufacturing plant at Easter Inch in Bathgate. A man working on the production line in the Assembly Area of Motorola. Despite employing over ...

Motorola has confirmed it is to close a mobile phone factory in Scotland with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs. Workers at the Bathgate plant in West Lothian were told the news at a series of meetings ...

The government has pledged to help employees of Motorola's Bathgate plant to secure new jobs. Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers described Motorola's decision on Tuesday to close the plant in ...

Mobile phone giant Motorola today delivered a huge blow to the UK by announcing the closure of a factory with the loss of up to 3,100 jobs. The decision to end production at the Bathgate plant in ...

Motorola announced its intention April 24 to ... included a large British Leyland truck and tractor factory at nearby Bathgate, and Polkemmet Colliery. The Leyland factory opened in the 1960s ...

Why then do we see general secretaries of trade unions and the TUC general secretary on our media complaining about Motorola's decision to close its Bathgate plant? I trust it is not for the sake ...

US mobile phone group Motorola confirmed yesterday it would close its Bathgate plant in Scotland with the possible loss of more… US mobile phone group Motorola confirmed yesterday it would close ...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has already intervened, asking Motorola chairman and chief executive Christopher Galvin to review all of the company's options before closing the Bathgate plant in ...

I had not even taken my jacket off when I was despatched with a photographer to the Motorola mobile phone factory in Bathgate after its closure was announced 20 years ago, with the sudden loss of ...

US mobile phone giant Motorola confirmed today it planned to close its Bathgate mobile phone plant on the outskirts of Edinburgh with the possible loss of more than 3,000 jobs. 'This proposal ...