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Post by knowingeye on Sept 5, 2008 8:53:41 GMT
Friday, 5 September 2008 09:30 UK BBC
Almost four thousand staff at Crewe-based carmaker Bentley are going down to a three-day week.
The firm has blamed the cut in production on the economic slowdown which has led to a fall in sales.
The luxury car maker says there has been a 16% fall in global sales in the year-to-date, with demand dropping the most in the US market.
Production line workers were told on Thursday that shifts were being cut from four days a week to three days.
Staff will stay on full pay until production is stepped up again under a "time banking" agreement.
Bentley says it is a temporary measure which is being monitored constantly and the firm expects the situation to remain challenging for the rest of this year and into the start of 2009.
But Bentley says the steps should safeguard the brand's value and the future security of the company and its workforce.
Bentley is part of VW, Europe's largest car manufacturer.
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Post by truckerged on Sept 5, 2008 9:44:07 GMT
feel for the lads at bently. but the unions shud have come up with something better than banked hours i had this experience at creda and we basically had to do unpaid overtime fekin hated it wud have prefered to be paid for the hours i worked that way you dont owe the feckers anything!
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Post by knowingeye on Sept 5, 2008 9:52:32 GMT
I wonder whether Bentley production has been cut back in Dresden, set up to take the overflow of orders from Crewe?
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Post by stokey-pokey pudding and pie on Sept 5, 2008 16:00:23 GMT
time banking works in theory - but if the factory gets closed or they force redundencies then it means fuck all - except having to work for nowt!
if bentley are finding their profits are falling they should stop throwing multi-million £ bonuses to the execs/shareholders! rather than fucking with the lowest paid workers on the shop floor
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