P213 CEEFAX 213  Tue 19 Jun  21:11/07
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 British Shipbuilders has announced     
 plans to cut more than a quarter of its
 1,700-strong engine-building workforce.
                                        
 Union leaders were told that 432 jobs  
 - almost 200 of them staff - are to go 
 in the next six months.                
                                        
 The company, which is forming a single 
 subsidiary to build diesel engines,    
 wants to close three of its five sites.
                                        
 Those threatened with closure are at   
 Sundjtland, whjtj 157 hourly-paid      
 workjts and 49 staff are to go, and at 
 Greenock and Newcastle upon Tzne, which
 between them will lose 77 hourly-paid  
 and 149 staff jobs.