08:22 Thursday 14th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
[P]AUL STAINTON: Up to 200 jobs are at risk at one of Cambridgeshire’s major employers, but bosses are reassuring staff that there’s unlikely to be more losses than that. Marshall Aerospace Defence Group currently employ around 2,200 people, but now it’s reducing to what it calls normal levels, following an increased workload over the past few years. Here’s Terry Holloway. He’s the Group Support Executive at the company.
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TERRY HOLLOWAY: We would like to hope this is it. One operates in a volatile world. We’ve seen the tragic events in the Philippines, which have had a terrible effect on people working over there. We’ve conducted a review within our company, and this is it. We’re doing it in a one round issue, and of course the other part of it is at Mildenhall. We’ve come to the end of two very successful contracts to build vehicles for the Army, and we announced at the same time today that we’re closing the Mildenhall site, which has been expected. It’s been coming ever since we started our first contract. That developed into a second one, so we lose 39 jobs there.
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PAUL STAINTON: That was Terry Holloway, Group Support Executive at Marshall’s. Cambridgeshire’s Labour Parliamentary candidate is Daniel Zeichner. Morning.
DANIEL ZEICHNER: Morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: How much of a blow is this for Cambridge itself?
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