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Week In Week Out - Going East

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Is Welsh manufacturing dying? The year's closure of Rhondda's Burberry factory with the loss of 300 jobs made national headlines; but over the last six months over ten times that many jobs have disappeared to eastern Europe and further afield. One union predicts that if the present exodus of jobs continues, Wales will stop making good within three decades. So what does this mean for Welsh wage packets?