THE TELEGRAPH: Britain's biggest manufacturer, aerospace giant BAE Systems, is to shed almost 600 jobs at two military factories due to a slowdown in work.
Trade unions vowed to fight any compulsory redundancies at the factories, which work on the Hawk and Nimrod aircraft
Trade unions said they were shocked at the scale of the cuts and vowed to fight any compulsory redundancies at the factories, which work on the Hawk and Nimrod aircraft. Some 450 posts will be eliminated in Brough, near Hull, after BAE lost out last year on a contract to supply Hawk training aircraft to the United Arab Emirates. The rest of the cuts will hit BAE's site at Woodford, south of Manchester, which has shifted operations away from design and development to aircraft maintenance. BAE to Shed Jobs after Sales Slowdown >>> By Russell Hotten, Industry Editor | April 4, 2008
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