Type
Business expansion
Country
United Kingdom
Region
West Midlands; Herefordshire; Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Location of affected unit(s)
Birmingham
Sector
Transportation / Storage
Land, Water And Air Transportation
Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines
49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines

200 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
21 April 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

Track company Network Rail says it wants to retrain them to fill vacancies in the Birmingham area and nearly 200 of the 5,000 employees being made redundant by MG Rover could be offered jobs working on the railways. They said that the electrical and engineering skills of the Longbridge car workers will transfer well to the railways, it says.


Sources

  • 21 April 2005: BBC News

Citation

Eurofound (2005), Network Rail, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61432, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61432.