SACKED Timex workers are to take their dispute to France.

The move follows the transfer of packaging and distribution work for

400,000 watches from Dundee to the company's Fralsen plant in Besancon.

The Fralsen plant is the company's last European factory, following

the Dundee closure announcement. Its workforce has shrunk from 2000 to

around 500.

Sacked deputy convener Willie Lesslie is travelling to the plant to

ask the French workers to ''black'' the work.

The CGT union branch at Fralsen tipped off the Dundee unions about the

transfer of work and faxed a message of support in which it said: ''We

would be pleased to welcome you here in order to exchange experiences

and try to develop struggle in order to guarantee the interests of the

employees in France and Scotland.''