BAE confirms it will cut 600 jobs - BBC 3 Apr 08
Defence company BAE has confirmed it will cut almost 600 jobs at its Brough site, near Hull and its Woodford plant near Manchester.
A failure to win new orders is partly behind the move, which will see almost a quarter of the 2,000 staff at Brough lose their jobs.
Engineering posts are most at risk, but staff in support and manufacturing at Brough will also be affected.
Union officials said they would resist compulsory redundancies.
Cuts at Brough were thought likely after BAE lost a big contract to supply 35 Hawk trainer jets to the United Arab Emirates
How very sad.
However, a
Reuters report back in January looked ominous. See
post 5 in this thread.