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Cheshire East Council’s recent Cabinet meeting was held just a couple of days after the devastating news that Crewe’s major employer, Bentley Motors, was looking to shed up to 1,000 jobs at its flagship Pyms Lane factory.
Bentley Motors today announced it is starting a 60-day consultation on compulsory redundancies from its South Cheshire plant.
The company said it was “some way short” of the 1,000 colleagues they were hoping to accept terms on its voluntary redundancy plan announced on June 5.
GMB Union bosses say the Bentley Motors announcement to shed 1,000 jobs from is South Cheshire plant is “another bitter blow to manufacturing in the region”.
The luxury car maker told its 4,200 staff on Friday that it needed to let go almost a quarter of the workforce as the impact of the pandemic on the car industry bites hard.
Bentley Motors said today an “urgent reduction in the workforce” was needed for the South Cheshire car maker to survive in the future.
It comes as one of the region’s biggest employers confirmed plans to lose up to 1,000 workers.
Bentley Motors in Crewe are planning to let up to 1,000 workers go from the South Cheshire plant, according to unconfirmed reports tonight.
ITV are reporting that the car plant’s 4,200 staff will be briefed tomorrow (June 5) on a “voluntary release program”.
South Cheshire-based Bentley Motors has published its COVID-19 risk assessment, thought to be the first UK automotive manufacturer to do so.
Cheshire East Council’s Skills and Growth Company has published a new directory to promote businesses’ apprentice schemes and help school leavers.
Multiple MINI Challenge race winner Rob Smith secured his third podium visit in as many race meetings during the sixth event of the season.
Smith, from Nantwich, was racing at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit as the intriguing battle over second place in the championship further intensified.
By Stephen Topping
Bentley Motors looks set to be given the green light by Cheshire East Council on its latest redevelopment plans for the Pyms Lane site in Crewe.
The firm, which employs thousands of people in Nantwich and Crewe, wants to build two, four-storey office blocks as part of its revamped campus.
Workers at Bentley Motors in Crewe have backed industrial action over plans to close their defined pension scheme, union bosses have said.
Unite union members at the luxury car maker’s South Cheshire headquarters took part in a consultative ballot with a 98% result in favour of strike action.
This horrific image shows how a defenceless cat was “peppered” with 10 air gun pellets in a brutal attack in South Cheshire.
The male, black cat was found collapsed on a grass verge by the side of Middlewich Road, close to Bentley Motors in Crewe.
Crewe & Nantwich MP Edward Timpson has hailed the opening of the new Crewe Engineering & Design UTC.
The school aims to teach and develop a new generation of engineers, innovators, technicians and designers.
New figures show 6,730 new apprenticeships have been started by people in Crewe and Nantwich since 2010.
The latest statistics have been welcomed by Crewe & Nantwich MP Edward Timpson.
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