Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Merseyside based shipbuilder Cammell Laird is understood to be cutting 98 jobs from its workforce in Merseyside. The company, which employs 663 at its yard in Birkenhead, has recently completed several orders and future work is uncertain. The Unite union, which represents the Cammell Laird workers, has asked the company to extend the period of time allowed for consultation and has put proposals forward to save jobs through cuts to working hours. It is being reported however that meetings between union representatives and the company which had been scheduled have not gone ahead, and it is expected that the company will shortly proceed to handing out formal notices of redundancy.
Update 23-05-2016: Despite trade union attempts to save jobs, Cammell Laird has confirmed that it intends to press ahead with 68 compulsory redundancies at its site in Birkenhead. A joint ballot of GMB and Unite members rejected the union's proposal to take industrial action over the job losses.
Eurofound (2016), Cammell Laird, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 87386, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/87386.
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