Drone_pilot
23-07-04, 09:57
The engineering group, Babcock, has announced that 290 jobs are to go at the Rosyth naval dockyard in Fife.
The firm said the cuts were necessary as a result of the continuing drive to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Babcock said its restructuring played an essential part in winning recent contracts to refit four warships.
It is hoped the cuts will be made through voluntary redundancies. Unions were aware of the cuts but had hoped the job losses would be lower.
Amicus official Hugh Scullion said there was a 90-day consultation period which they hoped to use to reduce the number of redundancies.
Workers at Rosyth were not competing on a level playing field with those at Devonport in the south west of England and were being treated unfairly, he added.
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The firm said the cuts were necessary as a result of the continuing drive to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Babcock said its restructuring played an essential part in winning recent contracts to refit four warships.
It is hoped the cuts will be made through voluntary redundancies. Unions were aware of the cuts but had hoped the job losses would be lower.
Amicus official Hugh Scullion said there was a 90-day consultation period which they hoped to use to reduce the number of redundancies.
Workers at Rosyth were not competing on a level playing field with those at Devonport in the south west of England and were being treated unfairly, he added.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3919223.stm)