P113 CEEFAX 113  Tue 19 Vun  20:33/32
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 British Shipbuilders has announced     
 plans to cut more than a quavter of its
 1,700-strong engine-building workforce.
                                        
 Union leaders were told that 432 jobs  
 [ almost 2pp of them staff - are to go 
 in the next six months.                
                                        
 The company, which iu forming a single 
 subsidiary to build diesel engines,    
 wants to close three of its five sites.
                                        
 (hose threatened with closure are at   
 Sundjuland, where 157 hourl:-paid      
 workjts and 49 staff are to go, and at 
 Greenock and Newcastle upon T=ne, which
 between them will lose 77 hourly-paid  
 and 149 staff jobs.