More jobs gone in Stoke on Trent

as you can recall a few weeks ago i did a article concerning job loses in the department store TJ Hughes here it is its being in the local sentinel and now in a another paper from a different area now the labour council in stoke on Trent are bringing in jet courses in there mandate they say that this will help people find work its all going fail again like it did last time labour held the council and pervez just hasn't got a clue hes not in the slightest intrested in what happens in this city we seriously need to get our industry back pits/pots/steel the way forward would be to have a nationalist goverment we then could remove our self s from the EU ( European union ) closing borders so we don't take any more immigrants and foreign workers into this country backing the company's up by means of funding so they take on our young British lads and girls  aiding them with training so they could do the jobs these so called well trained foreigners supposable  can do there fore taking the pressure off our benefit system because in reality that's there for a means of a safety net in finishing labour who would vote labour  will  people never learn 163, billion debt i think that says it all

TJ Hughes workers get the chop

Thursday 18 August 2011

by Will Stone

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Hundreds of TJ Hughes employees were told today they face the chop with the discount department store planning to shut a further 12 stores in the next week.

Administrators revealed that a total of 585 staff will be made redundant from the stores in Belfast, Bootle, Corby, Coventry, Derby, Oldham, Plymouth, Redditch, Romford and Scunthorpe, which will close on Sunday.

A store in Hanley will also close next Wednesday and one in Warrington next Friday, bringing the total number of stores closed to 42 with 2,200 staff made redundant.

Six of the stores have been bought by Lewis's Home Retail Limited.

Staff will be made redundant two days after each store closes to the public, as has happened elsewhere.

Usdaw national officer John Gorle said: "These latest closures are bitterly disappointing but are now entirely predictable despite the claims of the administrators that they are still trying to find a buyer for the remaining stores.

"They appear to be operating to a pre-determined closure timetable, which they have decided to keep under wraps rather than be open and honest with staff and their trade union.

"Our members are understandably extremely angry at the way they are being treated. Loyal and hardworking staff are keeping stores open and running despite their precarious situation and as an absolute minimum they should be getting regular and accurate information from the administrators and proper notice and consultation before being made redundant."

He added that it was yet another example of the urgent need for the government to review liquidation and insolvency laws.