Rolls-Royce has shown his goal of closing his Annesley in Nottinghamshire.
This comes after east Midlands, which has a primary aerospace base in Derby, as well as factories in Hucknall and Annesley, announced losses of “at least” 9,000 jobs.
The company, which employs tens of thousands of people, said it had still been affected by the economic effect of the coronavirus pandemic.
A corporate spokesman said: “The Covid-19 pandemic has created a historic civil aviation surprise that will take several years to recover.
“Demand for our civilian aerospace products has declined particularly and we have had to make difficult but mandatory decisions to position ourselves for the future.
“It is with wonderful sadness that we told our Annesley workers that we are proposing to close the site.
“Due to significant relief in the application for our products and services, following the COVID-19 pandemic, we no longer have the workload for operations.
“Lately we are consulting with unions and workers’ representatives, and we will have all the mitigation options, adding the offer of transfers of our staff to Derby.
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“Today’s news, of course, will be of great fear to all who work at Annesley, and our number one priority is to supply our workers and their families.”
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Today’s Rolls-Royce announcement (Wednesday 26 August) of its goal of closing the aerospace sites of barnoldswick, Lancashire and Annesley in Nottinghamshire and moving paints has been criticized by Unite, the uk and Ireland’s largest trade union.
Rolls-Royce has two sites in Barnoldswick, Bankfield and Ghyll Brow, employing about 730 people. The company plans to incorporate Ghyll Brow into Bankfield, as well as avoid the production of wide cable shovels for the city’s new Trent engines until 2023, putting 350 jobs at risk in addition to the two hundred layoffs announced in June.
Around 120 painters painted in Rolls-Royce in Annesley, and the company makes plans to move all operations to Derthrough and Germany until 2022 and offer the opportunity to move.
Rhys McCarthy, Unite’s national aerospace director, said: “These plans are a major blow to staff, especially as Rolls-Royce proposes to abandon production in the UK and move paintings to Singapore and Germany. Unite will spare no effort to save him.” closing these sites and moving jobs abroad.
“For Rolls-Royce, the appearance of plans to fire most of the staff at their Barnoldswick facility and move paintings to Singapore is a total betrayal of a professional and unwavering paint force. In 2009, staff were confident that Trent’s wide rope leaf production would continue at Barnoldswick despite the opening of some other plant in Singapore, a guarantee we now know we don’t value the paper on which he wrote.
“While Unite will keep Rolls-Royce in its position that Annesley’s staff will receive transfers to Derby, the union will ensure that Rolls-Royce considers every imaginable feature to keep Annesley open and continue working in the city.”
“There is no point in denying that the coronavirus pandemic has not had a devastating effect on air transport and, through the extent, on the aerospace sector. In other countries, however, measures have been taken to protect its post-pandemic execution and protection of tasks. Yesterday, the German government demonstrated that it would expand its programme of reduced time paintings, its edition of the UK’s task retention programme, until March 2022.
“If a similar system were followed in the UK, in which the salaries of staff working fewer hours are subsidized by the government for the loss of important staff and skills, the threat of loss of tasks in Rolls-Royce and many other corporations would apply. minimized.”
We asked for an interview and some additional key points about today’s announcement.
A spokesman said they did do do interviews, but he sent us this additional statement.
He says: “No one is fired today.
“About 120 other people paint in Annesley, however, we expect many to settle for transfers to Derby.
“We will now launch a consultation to discuss these proposals with workers’ union representatives.
“We look forward to completing the transfer of operations to Derthrough and Oberusel (Germany) until the end of 2022.”