A host of other leading union figures are also due to attend the meeting at St Thomas' Church in Westfield Street on Wednesday night (October 15).

Remploy's flagship St Helens factory closed in April. But the Lea Green site – which once employed 230 workers – still has a skeleton staff using the factory to help them hunt for new jobs. All production officially ended on Friday, March 14.

Nearly 200 workers have accepted redundancy packages and 44 remain on the Remploy payroll as they continue to look for work in mainstream employment.

Scargill, who quit as leader of the National Miners Union in 2000, remains one of the most divisive figures in British politics.

Revered and reviled in equal measures for his role in the 1984 miners' strike, he formed the Socialist Labour Party shortly after leaving the union movement.

Other speakers are expected to be Phil Davies, the National Secretary of the GMB union and Ron Waugh, the union's manufacturing section president.

The £12.5million factory was first opened by Princess Anne in February 2005 and was heralded as a leader in employment for the disabled. But just three years it was named as one the Remploy sites to shut following a cost-cutting report by the company.