Defence Giant BAE Axes Nearly 1,000 Jobs
Defence giant BAE Systems is to axe more than 900 jobs from its military divisions.
The 946 jobs will go at Military Air Solutions and Insyte (Integrated System Technologies), the group said.
Union officials are warning that the cuts could be the “tip of the iceberg” for the defence industry.
They expect the forthcoming strategic defence and security review and the cuts being demanded by the Treasury to spell bad news for the sector.
Kevin Taylor, managing director of Military Air Solutions, said job losses were likely in manufacturing, engineering and associated support functions.
“These potential job losses result from the impact of the changes in the defence programme announced in December 2009, together with other workload changes,” he said.
The company said there could be 212 job losses at Brough, in East Yorkshire, 26 at Chadderton, Manchester and 55 within the Harrier team at Farnborough, Hampshire.
A further 149 posts would go at Samlesbury, Lancashire with 298 job losses at Warton, Lancashire.
The remaining 206 jobs will go at Insyte.
Mr Taylor added: “We appreciate this is difficult news and we are committed to working with employees and their representatives to explore ways of mitigating the potential job losses.”
Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Union general secretary Hugh Scullion said unions were shocked at the scale of the cuts.
“Talks will begin locally in the first instance to attempt to mitigate the planned losses and if necessary national negotiations will follow.
“The unions will oppose any compulsory redundancies.
“With the forthcoming defence review these cuts may be the tip of the iceberg but knee-jerk reactions from employers could make things even worse.”
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Source : Sky News
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