Unite on Rolls Royce job losses
– Ian Waddell, Unite national officer for aerospace and shipbuilding,There is a very long timescale for consultation and implementation, so we hope that compulsory redundancies will be avoided. However, the underlying reason for the job losses is the government's defence spending cuts announced a couple of years ago.
Rolls Royce have yet to comment.
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