Demand for wind turbine blades has slipped, apparently, so an Isle of Wight-based company that makes them, Vestas, has plans to let go 625 workers (or, in the formulaic language of the BBC, "axe 625 jobs"). So some of those being "axed" have decided to barricade themselves into the factory, in the unorthodox but apparent hope that this will stimulate demand.
What is perhaps most interesting about this story is not so much what it reveals about the impermanence of green jobs as the trade unions' attitude to them:
"The court has made its decision, but we will continue with our campaign and the right to work on green energy jobs."
So it seems that on the left there is now a substantive right to a green job. What a happy world this will be, when everyone is paid for saving the planet. Presumably this right will be secured by a tax on the productive workers, but one has to wonder, just who will they be in this world?
(Cross-posted from Globalwarming.org)
