Former Remploy workers stage protest at Tory Conference

Employee on the picket line outside Remploy factory in July 2012 Credit: PA

Disabled workers who have lost their jobs after the closure of Remploy factories are staging a protest outside the Conservative Party Conference today.

Twenty-four sites were closed in August as part of government cut backs, including factories in Worksop and Chesterfield.

The Leicester and Stoke-on-Trent factories are among three more due to shut later this year and and the future of a further eighteen are uncertain.

Phil Davies, GMB National Officer, said: