Care to elaborate or at least provide a link?
urena
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on the news tonight another british firm fallen victim to tory austerity
Do you care to explain? Because Cooper Tire is a American owned company. Is it being moved to another country where wages are less?
Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Melksham, Wiltshire wants to cut the jobs over the next 10 months from a workforce of 732.
In a meeting held on Wednesday workers were given letters stating the site "was an older, smaller facility that did not offer economies of scale".
Bosses are now consulting with the trade union Unite over redundancies and jobs available at its other sites.
How is this a Tory fault?
In a meeting held on Wednesday workers were given letters stating the site "was an older, smaller facility that did not offer economies of scale".
Bosses are now consulting with the trade union Unite over redundancies and jobs available at its other sites.
How is this a Tory fault?
urena
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so are living costs just caught tail end the closed bit. thought they were british sorry for mistake folks
Here is the reason. Why let a unprofitable plant/Facility drag down a whole company?
"Unfortunately, the Melksham site... is the highest cost facility in the global Cooper network."
The plant is unprofitable and small.
urena
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shame for the workers tho bloody good tyres
yes on both counts. 80,000 mile warranty on there tires, at least here in the US.
urena
Well-Known Member
had um on me Pajero out lasted the truck
Cooper tyres were bought out by an Indian company in 2013.
Unless the government owned and subsidised the company then I would hardly blame a government for the fat trimming of a private business operating within the realms of our "free market" economy.
It is a shame that the company has to consider 300 redundancies but it would be for light vehicle tyres and there would still be almost 500 people still employed at the plant.
https://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/n...nounce-300-possible-redundancies-in-melksham/
Hicap phill
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Been on local news.
They are Only cutting certain tyre production.this is where job losses are.
No way they could ever expand in the middle of a town
They are Only cutting certain tyre production.this is where job losses are.
No way they could ever expand in the middle of a town
