BAE to announce Nimrod cuts
BAE Systems is expected to announce hundreds of job losses today as a result of the Government’s defence budget cuts.
Around 1,300 cuts are expected, mainly affecting staff working on Nimrod and Harrier contracts which were scrapped in the spending review.
Many of these workers are based in the North West at plants in Stockport and Warton in Lancashire which handle the £3.6bn Nimrod programme.
In October the Government said the defence budget would be cut by 8% over the next four years. BAE Systems had already announced in September 2009 that the Woodford site would close by 2012. But unions claimed the cuts would lead to the early closure of Woodford, possibly by March.
Around 500 staff BAE staff work at Woodford, which made 7,000 Lancaster Bombers during World War II. Another 400 people are involved in project management of Nimrod at BAE Systems’ site at Warton in Lancashire. Some 380 contractors working on the project at both locations were cut last month.
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