UK plant to lose 1,400 jobs
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July 6, 2011, Wednesday
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CANADIAN train maker Bombardier is cutting more than 1,400 jobs at its plant in Derby, central England, after losing out to German group Siemens for supplying the Thameslink cross-London railway.
Bombardier said it would cut 446 permanent jobs and 983 temporary jobs from its 3,000 strong Derby workforce as a result of missing out on the Thameslink contract and the completion of its current workload, which includes metro cars for the London Underground.
"The culmination and successful delivery of these projects and the loss of the Thameslink contract, which would have secured workload at this site, means that it is inevitable that we must adjust capacity in line with economic reality," Francis Paonessa, president of the passenger division for the UK, said in a statement yesterday. "We regret this outcome."
Bombardier - the only remaining train builder in Britain - said all its contracts, except for cars for some London Underground lines, would be complete by the end of September.
In June Britain awarded a consortium led by Siemens a contract to build and maintain 1,200 train carriages for London's Thameslink commuter rail service as part of a 6 billion pound (US$9.6 billion) upgrade of the line, which links Brighton on the south coast to commuter towns north of London.
Siemens has said that up to 300 jobs at its factory in South Tyneside, northeast England, would be created as a result of it winning the work.
Bombardier said it would cut 446 permanent jobs and 983 temporary jobs from its 3,000 strong Derby workforce as a result of missing out on the Thameslink contract and the completion of its current workload, which includes metro cars for the London Underground.
"The culmination and successful delivery of these projects and the loss of the Thameslink contract, which would have secured workload at this site, means that it is inevitable that we must adjust capacity in line with economic reality," Francis Paonessa, president of the passenger division for the UK, said in a statement yesterday. "We regret this outcome."
Bombardier - the only remaining train builder in Britain - said all its contracts, except for cars for some London Underground lines, would be complete by the end of September.
In June Britain awarded a consortium led by Siemens a contract to build and maintain 1,200 train carriages for London's Thameslink commuter rail service as part of a 6 billion pound (US$9.6 billion) upgrade of the line, which links Brighton on the south coast to commuter towns north of London.
Siemens has said that up to 300 jobs at its factory in South Tyneside, northeast England, would be created as a result of it winning the work.
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