27 December 2014
RMT Press Office
Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT union, said: "This is the bitterest blow any group of workers could receive on Christmas Day and it is absolutely shocking that the company have sprung this announcement once all the Christmas deliveries have been completed. They knew yesterday that the administrators had been brought in and yet refused to confirm it in a cynical effort to bury the bad news.
"City Link is a perfectly viable business sold off for a pound to a bunch of cowboys who had no interest in keeping the company afloat and the result is that nearly 3000 workers face the bleakest possible new year. It is a disgusting and callous reflection of business methods in Britain as we head into 2015.
"RMT will do everything within its power to mobilise a political and industrial fight to save the thousands of jobs that have been put at risk as a result of this shock announcement."
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