Skip to main content
Advertise Buy the paper Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us
Thousands of jobs at risk as Alstom chief says production could stop soon

BRITAIN’S largest train assembly factory could stop production soon, putting thousands of jobs at risk, Alstom managing director Nick Crossfield warned today.

Mr Crossfield said the potential job losses at the Derby site would have a “considerable” and permanent impact on the national supply chain.

A lack of orders has meant that “between now and May, June, we will go down to very little or no activity in what is one of the group’s largest facilities worldwide,” he told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Britain / 17 January 2025
17 January 2025
Israel’s onslaught has created the largest number of child amputees in modern history, experts say
Britain / 17 January 2025
17 January 2025
Britain / 17 January 2025
17 January 2025
Similar stories
Features / 12 April 2024
12 April 2024
An emergency motion to Midlands TUC AGM seeks to save the Alstom plant at Derby, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Features / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
BILL GREENSHIELDS warns of impending cuts at the Alstom train works in Derby and says the spirit of the successful 2011 fight over Bombardier needs to be rekindled