“I am surprised there has been no mention of the Contractors 100+ (dispensable I know) laid off to accommodate the displaced permanent staff. We may have been contractors but now we belong to the unemployed where there is no discrimination!”

“And what about the out sourcing of work at the Parts Service Centre in Wilmore Road where the effects of being TUPEd over to another company will have a devastating impact on 80-90 personel, gone are the times where R-R looked upon their workforce with admiration, they have found a cheaper supply of workers in the far east, moving work abroad does not always equate to a better product, Alfreton road was a good example, work from there was moved to Austria who then moved it on to Denmark because they could not do the work to which they said they could do, the Light Alloy Foundry, again moved work abroad only for R-R to ask redundant workers to come back months after they were shown the gate, R-R invest millions of £s to train people through apprenticeships only to discard these people to save money through a cheaper workforce, at the PSC they are telling the workforce that they are going to move to another company whether they like it or not, 2 things may happen, they will either lose their jobs or take a massive pay decrease, It was only 2 years ago that senior managers told the workforce at the PSC that if they voted for modern working practices their jobs would be safe, having hit targets week in and week out and having won a silver award for their work they are now rewarded with being told we do not need you anymore as your cost in wages are far to much, this after R-R anounced a pre tax profit of £880m, shame on you Rolls Royce.”

“I saw it coming about 6 years ago”

“Ken - I am always a bit bemused by the use of loyalty. After all, the workers get paid in return for their labours. If things go a bit wrong then industrial action is threatened. Regarding overseas - many customers and partners are overseas and they need a bit of the business. The shareholders require work to be placed where it will bring in the best commercial benefit. We should look to our government to give more support for manufacturing. We should be positioning ourselves to be a low cost manufacturing country.
Fortunately RR engines are "greener" than those on many of the surplus aircraft. We should also realise that Aero is just a part of the company's product base.”

“There is, undoubtedly, a downturn in the world-wide civil aviation industry, with dozens of surplus aircraft parked up on a US desert, for instance. But, Rolls-Royce has been outsourcing to plants all around the world for years.
So much for the loyalty of their UK work force!”