A protest planned to coincide with the closure of a Huddersfield factory has been cancelled – after management shut it early.

General union the GMB had planned a protest tomorrow outside Remploy factory at Tandem Industrial Estate, Waterloo, to mark its final day of operation.

Thirty employees, most of whom are disabled, have lost their jobs with the decision to axe the site.

But the GMB has abandoned the idea because Remploy bosses have already shut it – without giving any notice.

Huddersfield Trades Union Council, which backed the protest plan, claimed the “heartless and calculating” Government had betrayed disabled workers in the town.

A spokesman for Huddersfield TUC said officials were considering their next move after being thwarted in their plans and would be making a further statement today.

The factory, which made interior trim for major car manufacturers, was condemned to closure after being judged by the Government as “not commercially viable”.

The workers at Waterloo are among hundreds of disabled people who have lost their jobs with the axing of 15 Remploy sites across the country.