Bombardier to cut 1,400 jobs in blow to British manufacturing industry

Bombardier said the ramp-up of the C Series and other projects would create jobs that would go some way to offset the cuts. However, aviation experts say the C Series project is in trouble.
Bombardier said the ramp-up of the C Series and other projects would create jobs that would go some way to offset the cuts. However, aviation experts say the C Series project is in trouble.
REUTERS

Nearly 1,400 UK engineering jobs are to go after Bombardier announced it was cutting its global workforce by 10 per cent.

The Canadian group is to shed 1,080 jobs from its Belfast aircraft plant and three other locations over the next two years, representing more than a fifth of its workforce. The remainder of the jobs will go from its railway unit, which is based in Derby with depots in Ilford, Plymouth and Crewe.

The job losses are the latest in a succession of cutbacks in the manufacturing sector, following thousands of job losses in the steel industry as well as at blue-chip engineers such as BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce.

The company has been hit by sluggish sales of its new C Series aircraft, its