City & Guilds scraps mass redundancies and offshoring UK jobs to Greece
City & Guilds has reached an agreement with the union Unite to prevent mass redundancies and the offshoring of hundreds of UK jobs to Greece. The deal follows a period of industrial tension after the company was acquired by PeopleCert.
Why it matters
The resolution highlights the role of labor unions in protecting domestic employment against corporate cost-cutting and offshoring strategies.
Vocational training provider City & Guilds’s owner reached a deal with the union Unite to largely avoid compulsory job losses. Photograph: Monty Rakusen/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Vocational training provider City & Guilds’s owner reached a deal with the union Unite to largely avoid compulsory job losses. Photograph: Monty Rakusen/Getty Images Further education City & Guilds scraps mass redundancies and offshoring UK jobs to Greece PeopleCert had been planning to cut about 400 jobs in £22m savings drive at training body it bought last year
While the Guardian often leans left, this report focuses on the factual outcome of a labor negotiation, providing quotes from both the union and the company.
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