Carmakers bring back 3-day week
October 22, 2008 by Admin
A group of leading carmakers in Britain have annouced that drastic measures are needed to deal with the slump in demand. Nissan became the latest to slash production yesterday when it announced that it will completely stop further manufacture of its Micra and Note models at its Sunderland factory for two weeks.
When the production line is restarted it will operate until December on a three-day week reminiscent of the factory stoppages in 1974.
About 800 employees work on these models in the UK’s biggest car-making site. Bosses have denied that there will be job losses and insisted that pay will not be cut. However, the reduced operations will result in a 10% cut in production, similar to that announced by Honda, which has reduced its production of the Civic model at its Swindon factory.
