The potential of job losses at Fujitsu in Derry is “worrying,” Foyle SDLP MP Mark Durkan has said.
The Japanese IT company announced yesterday it was to cut its British workforce by 1,800 – around 250 people are employed by the Japanese IT company at its Timber Quay site in the city.
Mr Durkan said: “The potential job losses at Fujitsu in Derry is obviously worrying.
“I have spoken to local management who yet again are very clear about the quality of skills and performance that they have enjoyed from the local workforce.
“It was these skills and efficiency which has earnt these jobs for themselves in the first place and then later ensured jobs for new colleagues when the company expanded.”
Mr Durkan concluded: “Whatever the challenges that the company is trying to absorb in reshaping the profile of its workforce, it will be the job of all of us as public representatives to work with local management, the trade union UNITE and the various agencies right up to the Minister to help to ensure we maximise these valuable jobs in the North and especially here in Derry.
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