It's sad that nobody could find the right opportunity to repurpose the skills and equipment into some other product(s).
It's an old Brough tradition to hammer out leavers, very noisy in the big hangers and quite emotional as most of our staff have worked there all their lives . We've been downsizing for about 20 years and the last redundancy has taken 3 years but the end is today. A massive shame as we've had a very highly skilled workforce and BAE Systems are booming as a global company but the Air division has centralised around 2 mega factories in Lancashire and thats where all the investment has poured into. Quite a lot of Brough people transferred over there.
I think they have, at least to a point, hundreds of staff have been retrained and redeployed in other parts of BAE.
Seems it's not all bad news though, just 21 people at risk of compulsory redundancy and the site is still in operation albeit after some re-profiling. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/her...remote-working-will-secure-its-future-3077110
That's consolidation and restructuring. I was more meaning for someone to come up with a way to diversify what they produce.
The company have been very good at mitigation, VR and redeployment so in all the redundancies there has never been many compulsories. There was always a great Yorkshire versus Lancashire rivalry between sites though.
I have a cousin who worked there from leaving school, he took voluntary redundancy a few years ago in his early 50's. What with his pension entitlement and his lump sum he was as happy as larry, didn't need to work again. I'd imagine quite a few were in the same boat.
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Yes, I know a good few people sat "thank you very much" in the same situation. From a childhood friend who came out of his apprenticeship at C D Holmes, was immediately laid off now he had to be paid a mans wage, and was mortified he had to travel all the way to Brough to get work. To a family widowed friend who lives a very comfortable life on her departed husbands pension benefits. The final days for Brough are surprising in that it has lasted this long. Then again as one of the last military aircraft production facilities, it was always going to outlive the civil side that BAE Systems shut down.
The main difference I see is their heads & bums are at different ends. Maybe why they taste different?
Swindon Town are the only team in football whose name contains none of the letters from the word 'mackerel'.
