Workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in Patchway will not be affected by the loss of nearly 400 jobs within the firm’s defence division, says the Bristol Post.
News emerged on Tuesday that the company had begun consultation on staff reductions at its defence division plant at Ansty, near Coventry, where 378 “highly skilled” jobs are at risk.
The Unite union put the blame for the company’s decision on the Government for what it called “short-sighted” cuts to the national defence budget, but The Post says the running down of defence contracts could in fact turn out to be a “boost” for the Patchway plant, as it expected to benefit from work transferred from a Rolls-Royce site in Dahlewitz, Germany.
A Rolls-Royce spokesman said:
“We are in consultation with trade unions over reductions in our defence workforce at Ansty. We hope to achieve this without compulsory redundancies. Ansty also conducts civil aerospace business which is not affected.”
Last February, Rolls-Royce announced record annual profits of more than £1 billion for 2011.
The company employs just under 4,000 people at the Patchway site.
Read more:
- Rolls-Royce to ‘shed 400 jobs’ (The Telegraph)
- Patchway staff escape cuts (The Post)
was never any worries for our work place
The Bristol Post reports that 54 “admin and support” jobs are under threat at the Patchway factory in another round of cuts announced today:
Rolls-Royce to axe jobs at South Gloucestershire factory
Just read evening post and it says Office staff going as there are to many and they don’t need that amount,but that Roll/Royce are taken on new workers on the shop floor.Sounds about right