asap news (Free subscription) | yesterday
The airline carrier bmi is cutting down at least 600 jobs, scraping unprofitable routes, and reducing its fleet to help the company ride the economic downturn and falling passenger demand. Owner of bmi, German carrier Lufthansa AG, who took over the airline in July, said that the job cuts are part of the restructuring plan [...]
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bombardier, the Canadian train and aircraft maker, yesterday announced further job cuts in its aerospace division because of a lack of orders for its CRJ regional...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
VAUXHALL workers who were ecstatic after escaping job cuts are now stepping up their fight to win the right to build the Ampera electric car.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Published: 8:43PM GMT 26 Nov 2009Roland Koch, the governor of Hesse, oversees Opel's Ruesselsheim plant, where 2,500 job cuts could go, compared with a maximum of 1,600 under proposals by Magna, whose deal to buy Opel/Vauxhall was scrapped by GM earlier this month. The anger contrasts with the UK, where GM has confirmed it will cut no jobs at the Ellesmere Port plant and move from two-shift...
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
General Motors Europe interim head Nick Reilly has said that 50 to 60 percent of the company's planned 9,000 job cuts at its European subsidiary Opel would occur in Germany.Following promises earlier in the day that none of the German Opel plants would be shut down, Nick Reilly, the interim head of General Motors Europe announced Wednesday that up to 5,400 jobs could be lost at Opel's...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
General Motors (GM) said yesterday that Germany would suffer 50 to 60 per cent of the job cuts it was planning at its European Opel-Vauxhall business.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
General Motors (GM) said yesterday that Germany would suffer 50 to 60 per cent of the job cuts it was planning at its European Opel-Vauxhall business.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Job losses at Vauxhall's two UK plants will total 354, according to proposals outlined by General Motors.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
BAE Systems today announced further job cuts, detailing plans to shed 642 staff across eight of its 11 UK sites to take the jobless tally to nearly 2,300 this year.
France24 (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Vauxhall, the British arm of General Motors, on Thursday ruled out job cuts at its main car plant as it announced plans to increase the factory's production. Vauxhall said it was planning an additional shift at its Ellesmere Port site, northwest England. Union bosses however believe that the group's other British plant, in the town of Luton close to London, which makes vans, will soon officially...
Just Auto (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The premier of the German state of Hesse that is home to carmaker Opel's headquarters in Ruesselsheim has warned General Motors that any plans to cut 2,500 jobs there were "completely unacceptable".
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
General Motors Europe interim head Nick Reilly has said that "50 to 60 percent" of the company's planned 9,000 job cuts at its European subsidiary Opel would occur in Germany.
habser | yesterday
Most of the 9,000 job cuts that General Motors Co. is planning for its European operations will be affecting its workforce in Germany. Nick Reilly, GM’s acting head of European operations, said that as the carmaker reorganizes its Opel/Vauxhall division, it plans to cut about 5,400 jobs at its German factories but will keep open all its plants in the country.
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
BAE Systems is to make 642 workers in its technology systems business redundant, taking the number of British job cuts that have been announced by Europe’s largest defence contractor this year to more than 2,300.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Network Rail, the owner of Britain's tracks, signals and stations, warned of further job cuts to come as it posted an 11pc fall in half-year operating profits to £1.09bn.
