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  LANDMARK VICTORY FOR SACKED WORKERS 
  Workers sacked bz Swan Hunter havu  
  won a landmark victory against thu  
  Govjrnmjnt over redundancy payments 
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  A Newcastle industrial tribznpl     
  found the Govjrnmjnt had failed to  
  apply European laws on protecting   
  employees of insolvent companies.   
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  The 420 former shipyard workers h1d 
  claimed three months statutory      
(u redundancy pay from the Govjrnmjnt, 
  after a precedent set in Italy.     
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  A solictor acting for the workers   
  said the case showed Ezropjan ÷pw   
  remedies could help ordinary pjo8li 
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