Cuts revealed after cash award
have confirmed with them our intention to repay funds that we received in order to develop our services workforce in Inchinnan.
“We’re grateful to the Scottish Government for the support it has been able to give us.”
Greens MSP Ross Greer said the episode showed that “handouts to big businesses can’t guarantee jobs”.
He added: “The loss of jobs in Inchinnan is a massive blow to Renfrewshire, coming at the same time as the threat of thousands more jobs going at Intu Braehead.
“Rolls- Royce has shown a shocking lack of loyalty to a skilled workforce, one whose future the Scottish Government must step in to guarantee. As recent Green proposals have shown, we have the capacity to create thousands of the kind of quality manufacturing jobs that Renfrewshire and the rest of the country need, i f only the Government strategical ly invests in the clean industries of the future, rather than continue with no- strings handouts to corporate giants.”
Labour leader R icha rd Leonard said: “With hundreds of jobs cut at Rolls-Royce so soon after the company benefited from over £1.5million of public money, serious questions need to be asked about the ethics of the Rolls-Royce management and the efficacy of no-stringsattached business support.”
More than half the 700 workers facing redundancy at Inchinnan are expected to be let go within the next few weeks.
Rolls- Royce said that it wanted to half its 1300-strong work force at Inchinnan following the collapse of orders due to the pandemic.
The firm – which makes engines and power systems for aircraft and military ships – is to shed 9000 jobs worldwide.
The figure is around 20 per cent of its total workforce.
Cont ra ct s have fa l len dramatically after the world went into lockdown in March, with the airline industry particularly badly affected.
The cuts at Inchinnan, which is next to Glasgow Airport, will primarily affect workers who