Union Urges City Link Investigation

7 January 2015, 08:33

A union has called for a full investigation into the collapse of delivery firm City Link as hundreds more workers lost their jobs.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union said the remaining 300 City Link staff are to be sacked from today.

Almost 2,400 jobs were lost when the company went out of business over Christmas, while a last-ditch bid to save the firm failed.

Administrators EY have announced an agreement to sell cages, scanners and intellectual property to the DX Group for £1.1 million.

RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "Today the remaining 300 City Link staff who escaped the sack on New Year's Eve will be told that they are out of a job as the tide of human misery unleashed by the collapse of the company over Christmas continues to swell.

"With the administrators now conducting a fire sale of the City Link assets, it is simply outrageous that the bandit capitalists who drove the company over the cliff have ring-fenced their investment as secured loans and will get first call on any cash raised while our members will be forced to wait months and can only expect a pittance.

"The fight for justice for the City Link workforce goes on and RMT continues to press for a full and forensic investigation into events leading to the collapse of the company.''