UNIONS were last night holding crunch talks with management at a factory threatened with closure.
Workers at the Acre Products factory, in Darlington, were told on Monday that the TV cabinet manufacturing plant would close by June - with the loss of 80 jobs.
The first wave of redundancies will involve 30 workers within the next few weeks - and Jackie Woodall, of the GMB Union, said she was in talks with managers over terms and conditions
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