TVR has gone Bust????
Discussion
The problem with the recent news of lay offs seems to be the quality of the human mind to exagerate into full blown doom and gloom !
seems all a bit strange this is the news report???????
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ANDY ROBERTSONPanicked TVR workers seek out union advice
WORRIED TVR workers are bombarding union chiefs with pleas for help as fears today continue to grow over job cuts.
Union leaders will hold last-ditch talks with TVR bosses on Monday after staff at the Bispham factory were told by letter they will be laid-off.
Andy Robertson, of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), said TVR had still not confirmed how many workers had been laid off.
He will meet with TVR managing director David Oxley at 11am on Monday when the factory re-opens after its Easter shut-down.
Mr Robertson said: "My phone has been red-hot from workers contacting me not knowing what to do. They have given up their pay rise and changed their holidays to help the company and now this is dropped on them.
"It's a scandal."
Yesterday it was revealed that dozens of workers are expected to be laid off by the company due to a slump in orders sparking fears that its future is uncertain.
Blackpool Council's cabinet member for regeneration Coun Eddie Collett said it was vital that everything possible was done to ensure the business, which employs around 350 people, continues to be a success.
He said: "The council has been in discussion with TVR over several years about working together to secure work in Blackpool so any downturn in the fortunes of TVR is of concern to us.
"Normal fluctuations in orders are to be expected. Whether the company could manage its labour force better, I don't know. But we want to ensure the long term future of those jobs. It is very important to the local economy that we keep TVR here.
"It is always a concern that they may relocate somewhere else and I believe a number of development agencies have approached them over the last two years. We are working very hard to keep them here and will do everything possible to help the company through difficult times."
Joan Humble, MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, said she was worried to hear the news and would be contacting bosses at TVR to get to the bottom of the situation.
She said: "I am very concerned at the suggestion that staff at TVR are being laid off. TVR is a major manufacturing employer in Blackpool.
"I shall be making urgent inquiries of the company to find out exactly what is going on. Clearly for both myself, and more importantly, the workers, we need reassurances about the future."
TVR was sold to Russian millionaire Nikolai Smolenski for a reported £15m in July 2004.
TVR enthusiasts, writing on specialist motoring website www.pistonheads.co.uk, said they hoped the decision to lay off workers now would save the factory in the long run.
One wrote: "It's a hard choice to make but the right one in this case....laying people off now can save jobs later in the year."
Another contributor says: "I'd like to look at this positively and hope that all this is part of a long-term plan to bring TVR back into the 21st Century."
But another writer claims the company is in more serious trouble and comments: "If they have brought it down this far, what makes you think they are going to engineer a complete turnaround by summer?"
TVR was owned by Martin Lilley between 1965-81 before Peter Wheeler bought the site.
shelagh.parkinson@blackpoolgazette.co.uk
21 April 2006
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ANDY ROBERTSONPanicked TVR workers seek out union advice
WORRIED TVR workers are bombarding union chiefs with pleas for help as fears today continue to grow over job cuts.
Union leaders will hold last-ditch talks with TVR bosses on Monday after staff at the Bispham factory were told by letter they will be laid-off.
Andy Robertson, of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), said TVR had still not confirmed how many workers had been laid off.
He will meet with TVR managing director David Oxley at 11am on Monday when the factory re-opens after its Easter shut-down.
Mr Robertson said: "My phone has been red-hot from workers contacting me not knowing what to do. They have given up their pay rise and changed their holidays to help the company and now this is dropped on them.
"It's a scandal."
Yesterday it was revealed that dozens of workers are expected to be laid off by the company due to a slump in orders sparking fears that its future is uncertain.
Blackpool Council's cabinet member for regeneration Coun Eddie Collett said it was vital that everything possible was done to ensure the business, which employs around 350 people, continues to be a success.
He said: "The council has been in discussion with TVR over several years about working together to secure work in Blackpool so any downturn in the fortunes of TVR is of concern to us.
"Normal fluctuations in orders are to be expected. Whether the company could manage its labour force better, I don't know. But we want to ensure the long term future of those jobs. It is very important to the local economy that we keep TVR here.
"It is always a concern that they may relocate somewhere else and I believe a number of development agencies have approached them over the last two years. We are working very hard to keep them here and will do everything possible to help the company through difficult times."
Joan Humble, MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, said she was worried to hear the news and would be contacting bosses at TVR to get to the bottom of the situation.
She said: "I am very concerned at the suggestion that staff at TVR are being laid off. TVR is a major manufacturing employer in Blackpool.
"I shall be making urgent inquiries of the company to find out exactly what is going on. Clearly for both myself, and more importantly, the workers, we need reassurances about the future."
TVR was sold to Russian millionaire Nikolai Smolenski for a reported £15m in July 2004.
TVR enthusiasts, writing on specialist motoring website www.pistonheads.co.uk, said they hoped the decision to lay off workers now would save the factory in the long run.
One wrote: "It's a hard choice to make but the right one in this case....laying people off now can save jobs later in the year."
Another contributor says: "I'd like to look at this positively and hope that all this is part of a long-term plan to bring TVR back into the 21st Century."
But another writer claims the company is in more serious trouble and comments: "If they have brought it down this far, what makes you think they are going to engineer a complete turnaround by summer?"
TVR was owned by Martin Lilley between 1965-81 before Peter Wheeler bought the site.
shelagh.parkinson@blackpoolgazette.co.uk
21 April 2006
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