Nissan is on my manor and they are known to be good payers, but there are some concerns about workers being hired and fired as market conditions dictate.
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This is the trouble, last in first out.
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It's a shame that this relatively good news has been tempered by the announcement of 900 redundancies at the Shop Direct (Littlewoods) call centre in Sunderland. I used to work there and still know a few people who will have spent this afternoon looking for work. The call centre industry is one of Sunderland's biggest employers so this is a huge blow.
I read on-line that this extra shift is to fill a huge order for Qashqais in the first half of 2010, who on earth puts in one order big enough to force the hiring of 450 extra staff? Let's hope they keep buying! :-)
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I believe Nissan are building a new vehicle to sit below the Qashqai at Sunderland.
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A loss of 900 lower paid jobs and a gain of 400 well paid very highly skilled jobs, its not so much bad news. The problem is the UK job market is now all about skills. The supermarkets are getting 1000 applicants per job in some areas.
I am so glad I am well and truly out of the job market now :).
For the unskilled in this country times are going to get very very tough unless the retail sector really picks up. This why government training schemes for older people are so important, so people can get the new skills required for the modern jobs. This is no longer being able to use a computer like it was ten years ago.
If these jobs are all £30k each then this is really really good news for the area.
Edited by Rattle on 28/01/2010 at 23:12
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The problem is the UK job market is now all about skills.
For the past 20+ years kids have left school and gone to university to study become solicitors white collar workers which is just fine but there is a massive skills shortage in manual work as we find out who are doing it, low wages never helped and getting your fingers dirty never appealed so if you left school with nowt what can they expect.
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The managing director of the Nissan plant was on local news this morning, saying he "hoped" that these jobs will last upto 6 months.
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A loss of 900 lower paid jobs and a gain of 400 well paid very highly skilled jobs its not so much bad news.
I see your point, but that's still a lot of people who will now be struggling to pay mortgages, they weren't working there for pocket money! The 900 people working in the lower paid contact centre jobs actually do quite well financially for what they do and they may struggle to replace that lost income (advisors in my current office earn about £18K for answering the phone)
The problem these staff have is that they are skilled up for contact centre work, not for production line work, they will find it quite difficult to find alternative employment. My centre is hiring now but we will only soak up a fraction of the laid off staff. Other centres are still "off-shoring" their work, fortunately my industry has tried in the past and it was a miserable failure. :-)
Sorry I know that the link to the Nissan factory is tenuous but I feel close enough to this issue personally to want to comment on it! :-)
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I read on-line that this extra shift is to fill a huge order for Qashqais in the first half of 2010 who on earth puts in one order big enough to force the hiring of 450 extra staff?
Another Nissan Company from another country - Nissan Japan, Nissan USA............
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This is great news and that duke looks great.
What is this "Duke" and where have you seen it? Google draws a blank.
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>>> What is this "Duke" <<<
www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/index.htm?md=1618
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It looks more like "JUKE" to me than Duke though !
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Thanks. Thought "Duke" sounded an odd name. Not that "Juke" is much better, although it is an improvement on SquashedCow.
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The 'Juke' was originaly known as The Qazanza ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Qazana
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Not that "Juke" is much better, although it is an improvement on SquashedCow.
Lol, yes my mistake it's juke.
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Good news for Sunderland. Its a different story here in Derbyshire. Local media reporting that up to 750 jobs may go at Toyota's Burnsaton Plant (and the possibility of job losses at their plant in Deeside). Its not been a good few weeks for Toyota recently.
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