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Tyneside plant escapes job cuts

ENGINEERING workers on Tyneside look to have escaped a jobs cull planned by defence giant BAE Systems.

The multinational, which employs around 500 people in Newcastle, yesterday announced plans to cut almost 1,000 jobs, blaming the decision on public spending cuts.

According to reports, 450 jobs are at risk at two BAE sites in Lancashire – Samlesbury and Warton – with more than 200 threatened at BAE’s plant in Brough, Yorkshire.

Jobs are also expected to go at Farnborough and at Chadderton, Oldham, where the Lancaster bomber was built.

Kevin Taylor, managing director of BAE’s Military Air Solutions division, said the potential job losses would come in manufacturing, engineering and associated support functions for aircraft such as the Tornado.

“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.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .