Engineering job losses
By
GLEN PERKINSON
Twenty-seven engineering and clerical staff at the Christchurch engineering firm, Andrews and Beaven, have no jobs to go to on Monday. The workers received redundancy notices yesterday afternoon, effective as of the end of the day. The bombshell was delivered because of the “downturn in the engineering industry,” said Mr Kevem Harris, process machinery manager at the Moorhouse Avenue factory.
The factory employed more than 100 workers before yesterday’s decision. The downturn in the industry had been telling on the company for more than a year, said Mr Harris. He declined to comment further on the job losses. The secretary of, the Canterbury branch of the Engineers’ Union, Mr Bob Todd, said last evening that most of the workers were union members, and had received satisfactory redundancy packages
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Press, 12 September 1987, Page 1
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