BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest defence contractor, has brushed aside a plea by David Cameron to save high-level manufacturing jobs and is proceeding to axe around 2,000 posts.
The worst-hit plant will be Brough in East Yorkshire, where BAE is to make 750 compulsory redundancies and end manufacturing – a move described by trade unions as a “disgraceful dereliction of duty”.
The future of manufacturing at the facility – which built Hawk jets used by the Red Arrows display team – was put in doubt last September, along with others around the UK. Workers and MPs including the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, campaigned to save Brough, while the prime minister promised defence staff he would put their case at a meeting with BAE boss Ian King…
via BAE brushes off plea to save 2,000 jobs | Business | The Guardian.
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BBC News – End of an era for BAE aircraft manufacturing in Brough
When BAE Systems finally closes the doors of its East Yorkshire factory next year, it will end nearly 100 years of aircraft manufacturing in Brough.
Not only is it a blow to hundreds of workers at the plant but also to those who have grown up in a town steeped in industrial heritage.
Aircraft manufacturing began in Brough in 1916 when aviation pioneer Robert Blackburn opened a factory for his Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company…
via BBC News – End of an era for BAE aircraft manufacturing in Brough.
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