Shipyard to make 68 employees redundant
A Birkenhead-based shipyard will make 68 compulsory redundancies amid a drop-off in contracts, a recent news report in the local media has found.
Cammell Laird has blamed a drop-off in contracts for the move but the union Unite, which represents around half of the workers on the site, has urged the firm to retain skills at the yard ahead of major work getting underway in the next few months to build the £200m ‘Boaty McBoatface’ polar research vessel. The contract to build the ship, which will be officially known as the RRS Sir David Attenborough, was won after Cammell Laird fought off international competition for the work.
Last month, Cammell Laird originally announced that 98 jobs were under threat.
Speaking at the time, a Cammell Laird spokesman said: "Cammell Laird is principally a marine and engineering contracting business. This means we can have peaks in demand for skilled and semi-skilled labour, which is the nature of contract-based industries.
"Our workforce stands at 663, and as a result of finishing substantial dry-docking and refit contracts, and without certainty in the award of similar contracts in the immediate term, the company needs to address its cost base to remain competitive."
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