ANGRY union leaders at engineering giant GEC demanded top-level talks with bosses over impending job cuts.
Almost 200 employees at the firm's premises in Clayton-le-Moors were set to lose their jobs within months. But union bosses said they had not given up hope and hoped to take their case to managing director Lord Weinstock.
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