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30/03/2009
Twin Jobs' Fears Revealed
There's doubly bad news on employment today as about 90 jobs are expected to be cut at a major manufacturing facility in Co Antrim, while more cuts are expected at Translink in Derry.
The losses are due to be announced this week at Nortel's plant in Newtownabbey.
Last month the telecoms company said it had plans to shed over 3,000 jobs worldwide.
Nortel's UK operation went into administration in January after its parent firm filed for US bankruptcy protection.
About 500 people are employed at the Newtownabbey site, although more than 2,000 people worked there at its peak of success.
It opened in the 1960s as a Standard Telephone and Cables manufacturing facility, which was bought by Nortel in 1992.
Meanwhile, 21 jobs are to go at Ulsterbus in Londonderry, a trade union has said.
The T&G section of the trade union Unite said they were informed of the cuts at the Foyle Street depot by the company's management at the weekend.
Translink have said they will seek voluntary redundancies, but have not confirmed where jobs will go.
Elsewhere, around half the workers at Ulster Carpet Mills in Portadown - a total of 200 - have been placed on a four-day week due to the economic recession.
The company said that orders from the home and export markets, especially America, have diminished as the credit crunch bites.
However, a spokesman aid that the company had "a strong base" and no further measures were envisaged in the near future.
See: Minister Meets Translink Unions Over Job Cuts
(BMcC/JM)
The losses are due to be announced this week at Nortel's plant in Newtownabbey.
Last month the telecoms company said it had plans to shed over 3,000 jobs worldwide.
Nortel's UK operation went into administration in January after its parent firm filed for US bankruptcy protection.
About 500 people are employed at the Newtownabbey site, although more than 2,000 people worked there at its peak of success.
It opened in the 1960s as a Standard Telephone and Cables manufacturing facility, which was bought by Nortel in 1992.
Meanwhile, 21 jobs are to go at Ulsterbus in Londonderry, a trade union has said.
The T&G section of the trade union Unite said they were informed of the cuts at the Foyle Street depot by the company's management at the weekend.
Translink have said they will seek voluntary redundancies, but have not confirmed where jobs will go.
Elsewhere, around half the workers at Ulster Carpet Mills in Portadown - a total of 200 - have been placed on a four-day week due to the economic recession.
The company said that orders from the home and export markets, especially America, have diminished as the credit crunch bites.
However, a spokesman aid that the company had "a strong base" and no further measures were envisaged in the near future.
See: Minister Meets Translink Unions Over Job Cuts
(BMcC/JM)
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