Hewlett Packard to cut Yorkshire jobs says union

TECHNOLOGY giant Hewlett Packard is planning to axe more than 1,100 jobs, including jobs in Sheffield, the Unite union claims.

The union said HP will axe 1,124 posts in total from its operations in Bracknell, Sheffield and Warrington. The cuts will be implemented in the first quarter of 2014.

Unite national officer Ian Tonks said: “For the last five years HP has been addicted to a culture of job cuts in the UK to such an extent that its highly skilled workforce has little faith in the way the company is being managed and will be going forward.

“Unite will be doing everything possible to mitigate these job losses which are a hammer blow to the UK’s IT sector and very distressing for employees in the run-up to Christmas.”

Unite said 618 jobs could be lost at the company’s UK HQ in Bracknell, 483 will go at Warrington and 23 at Sheffield.