This year was going ok until 3/05/18 At my work and was told be a meeting for us all at 1pm. We all thought with Youngs CEO going to be talking to us to tell us company was doing ok and about wage rise. The managers where with him an hour before us workers. We all in the canteen and the shock was delivered to us workers. The CEO told us that Youngs are closing the factory down. We where all speechless. 450 of us workers going to be out of work.
3 months before that shock we where told the company is ok and our jobs are secure.
Last year when Youngs decided to build a new factory at there Grimsby head office. We said then they will close us down. As Youngs do that and done it to the factory at Fraserburgh Scotland. They streamed line it and closed it down. Some of the workers moved down to Annan to work at Youngs Pinneys. Youngs thats what they do join a company and then close them. Move the work to Grimsby. The CEO at the shocked meeting told us they are taking on 200 at Grimsby and 50 at seafoods in Annan. Thats not enough jobs as there is going to be more than 450 out of work shutting our work down.
After a week its sinking in and iam looking for work each day but around here in south west Scotland there is no work at all but a few jobs there will be 450 after them.
Youngs streamed line us begining last year and with there new factory getting built we new the day would come. They lost the ready made meals with Marks and Spencer as last year they where fined by M+S 6 times for products not right for them. So M+S took contract to another company.
So Youngs you kicked yourselfs in the backside. You streamed the lines to save costs and put time limits on the lines to make the product quicker. You said it was ok to do that but all along it was not as M+S fined you as there product not right.
There is one thing Youngs meant to made a profit last and building new factory aswell. But why do the cut backs on the factory Pinneys and staff. Then tell us its costs to much thats why you are closing the Pinneys factory. Youngs in the last few months have spent a lot of money on the Pinneys factory from new boiler to new windows in canteen. New computers on dispatch and a new dish washer for canteen.
Now i know businesses in the past what where going to close down never spent any money the factory 3 months before they closed. I dont know exact date when they decided to close pinneys down. But last year new factory getting built they must have known december 2017 they knew they close pinneys down. So why spend money on the factory then close it Youngs ?
To me that does not add up at all.
We had meetings this last week with MPs etc but they cant do anything either. Youngs are shutting us down and that will not change.
Youngs seafoods done it others in the past and now doing it to us. We all going to be out of work june unless we can find another job.
This has all happened and its sunk in me now. Iam on a mission now to find work and even move to get work as no work here south west Scotland.
Only bonus that week for me was my team Liverpool beating Man city.
I have had the itch in me feet the last few months and have been looking for work away from here. But i was only browsing the work away from here and other countries. Some of them i have applied for them this last week.
Saturday, 14 April 2018
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