Thursday, Nov 27, 2008
They are begging for a bailout and layoff staff!!!
bbc: Car firm cuts 850 agency workers
About 850 agency workers are to lose their jobs at Jaguar Land Rover in the West Midlands and Warwickshire.
The IT and engineering staff at plants in Castle Bromwich, Solihull, Whitley, and Gaydon have been told their jobs will go by the end of the year.
Posted by mark @ 12:54 PM (641 views) Add Comment
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1. mark said...
even the councils are cutting staff now!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/default.stm
2. jack c said...
I had a suspicion it would only be a matter of time for the Councils to cut jobs on the basis that they will soon be running out of cash - if you really want to open Pandora's box ask your local council to confirm to you the % of your council tax which is being used to fund local government pensions (teachers and Police included)
Significant from the article is - A Glasgow City Council spokesman said: "These are difficult and uncertain times and Glasgow is certainly not immune. "The perfect storm of inflation, added to the credit crunch, means there are significant pressures on our budgets which we will have to deal with. If we do not, we will see our reserves cut to an unacceptably low level"
3. mark said...
i do know for certain a number of staff will be cut from cheshire county, however this is info given to me from a senior guy in the council and is not yet public knowledge... until now..lol
4. jack c said...
@mark - I'm on the phone to Ant & Dec as I type and your cheshire county council leak will be discussed in camp on tonights I'm a Celeb !
Seriously - as your guy to confirm to you the % of your council tax which is being used to fund local government pensions (teachers and Police included) - you will be amazed.
5. mark said...
it was two weeks ago he told me about the job cuts, i will ask him next time i speak to him.
6. lierbag said...
These redundancies are starting to roll in now with almost early-1980s like inevitability. Looking at the envisaged Woolworth/MFI figures alone (31,000 job losses). At about £60 per week, for JSA, if those folks aren't lucky enough to find alternative employment (and it's going to be difficult in retail) then that's an annual government bill of £96,720,000. Somebody please tell me my calculator is stuffed . . .
7. lierbag said...
These redundancies are starting to roll in now with almost early-1980s like inevitability. Looking at the envisaged Woolworth/MFI figures alone (31,000 job losses). At about £60 per week, for JSA, if those folks aren't lucky enough to find alternative employment (and it's going to be difficult in retail) then that's an annual government bill of £96,720,000. Somebody please tell me my calculator is stuffed . . .
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