Marconi board misled unions over job losses

摘要

Unions claim they were reassured by Marconi less than two weeks ago that the company would not be making more job cuts for the foreseeable future. A delegation from the MSF that went to the group's London head office on Wednesday 22 August was told by the board that an operational review was going well and the company would meet its break-even target. A union spokesman said Tuesday's surprise announcement of 2,000 redundancies, following a trading loss in the first quarter, made a mockery of the new rules governing union consultation.