The company I work for dropped the bomb four weeks ago and announced that they are closing our plant. One of our American bosses flew over to break the news. We were told that the company had started a period of consultation (45 days) to see if there was any way of keeping the factory open. It’s all boll*cks of course, they would have welded the gates shut that morning if they could have. They plan to stop production before the end of June.
The timing of this is bitter sweet for me as I was only a couple of weeks away from retiring on health grounds. Now I will get full ill health retirement pension and the redundancy. It’s likely that I’ll leave with two weeks pay for every years service plus the twelve weeks statutory. After twenty four years service I’ll do very well.
The down side of all of this is that one hundred and fifty of my colleagues will be out of work before the summer.