2015-03-06 (Day 065) Occupation!

In 1987 the Caterpillar closed its factory in Tannochside, Uddingston. It was particularly cruel for the surprise it hed, with the workforce having been told only weeks before that the site was to benefit from planned auotmation investment.

Unfortunately, the Caterpillar management changed its mind and shut down the plant, in the first of many such disinvestments by major American firms in the UK.

The work force occupied the plant for 103 day in a protest at the closure, but the plant was closed anyway.

This memorial, just a hundred yards from the site of the plant, has been set up to mark this effort.