Rolls-Royce – Investment to protect 7,000 jobs

Rolls-Royce has pledged to protect 7,000 engineering jobs in the east Midlands as part of a £150m investment, its largest single outlay in the UK for more than a decade. 

The engineering firm struck a deal with trade unions that will safeguard work for nearly a third of its 22,300-strong UK workforce for five years, as it prepares to double the number of engines it builds.

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