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Wind turbine maker cuts hundreds of jobs on Isle of Wight
Wind turbine maker Vestas has said 600 workers at its Isle of Wight factory are at risk of redundancy.
Employees at the Newport plant have been told at least half of its manufacturing operation will be cut amid changing demand for turbine blades.
6 comments:
I often see the blades get brought over to Portsmouth. They have a special ship called "Bladerunner".
I like the euphemistic phrase "changing demand". It means, of course, that nobody wants to buy them. If they put a curve in them and fitted a ladder, they would make a nice children's slide.
Poor buggers. I suppose everyone nowadays, bar civil servants and the like, must live in fear of redundancy.
Also, Millibrain has “stepped in” with £300m of our money, to “save” some of the jobs. These are the green jobs we were promised - funded by the taxpayer, making things that nobody wants: socialism in a nutshell.
Sam - there seems to be some effort going into recycling the things, but it doesn't appear to be easy. Fire escape slides for tall buildings?
dearieme - and I suspect some comfortable civil servants always knew those jobs were never secure in spite of all the 'green jobs' rhetoric.
Peter - yes, Ed Miliband is socialism in a nutshell too. The whole Cabinet is.
Deja vu strikes again. Vestas closed the factory back in 2009 with around 600 job losses. A few years later, they came back having received enough 'Government' money to make them see the error of their ways.
Anon - it's a pity deja vu doesn't strike governments a little harder, especially as they are always telling us about 'lessons learned'.
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