Prior to the closures, workers did not report any problems with the stores' plumbing systems.
The findings heightened concerns that company directors have inflated their pensions despite falling profits and the widespread closure to workers of generous final salary pensions.
Upon closure we workers were left with only half a month's pay, so once our monthly bills were paid, we had a handful of small change to live off.
"It makes little sense to speculate on expensive plant closures," the workers group said.
Perhaps that's one reason that some of the people who are protesting the store closures include workers themselves, who, on Sundays, would prefer the cash to leisure time.
With seven Remploy factories in Wales among those earmarked for closure, affecting 272 workers, the Welsh government expressed profound disappointment and predicted the effects would be "devastating for those workers, their families and the local communities".
The temporary closure saw 1,300 workers take voluntary redundancy and the remaining 3,400 take a 3% pay cut for 10 months.
The issues, says the union, are both what it calls "the worst pay offer in the industry" and the closure to new workers of a typically generous pension scheme still enjoyed by existing employees.
Examples of proposed pandemic measures not supported by law included the use of unlicensed drugs, vaccines and health workers, closure of borders, control of media information and reporting, obligation of workers to work where there was risk to health and safety, compulsory isolation, quarantine, vaccination and prioritisation of people in access to vaccines and antivirals.
Labour protests have erupted in China with economic growth slowing and factory closures often leaving workers with unpaid wages and no redundancy pay.
