Four bidders are interested in the troubled Co Antrim bus-building firm Wrightbus, a trade union has said. Harland and Wolff worker Joe Passmore (front left) with Wrightbus workers and families at a mass meeting held after the bus-building firm was placed in administration (Liam McBurney/PA)Hundreds of Wrightbus workers and their families gathered at Ballymena Showgrounds this afternoon for a mass meeting organised by the Unite union. Harland and Wolff worker Joe Passmore was among supporters that turned out to show solidarity, and urged the Wrightbus workers to “keep fighting for their jobs”. It came days after the Harland and Wolff workers learned a buyer had been found for the Belfast shipyard and the jobs were to be preserved. A Wrightbus worker speaks with a Unite officer during the mass meeting (Liam McBurney/PA)Those gathered at the Ballymena Showgrounds site were told by a union official of interest in Wrightbus from four bidders.

Source: Irish Examiner October 02, 2019 18:44 UTC