BAE Systems to cut 3,000 jobs

Posted on 25 Sep 2011 by The Manufacturer

In a devastating blow, the defence firm has said that it is planning to announce further redundancies of 3,000, after two years of other similar cuts in its workforce.

BAE’s sprawling country-wide reach is to be particularly badly hit in several areas, mostly in Lancashire – the site where the Eurofighter Typhoon jet is manufactured. The Brough site in east Yorkshire is another site that is expected to be badly hit, which is where the Hawk training jet is produced. Citing a lack of…

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