Workers go down to two-day weeks

The firm's other plants in Coventry and Castle Bromwich are unaffected

A manufacturing firm that supplies parts for the car industry has announced a drastic cut in workers' hours at its factory in Shropshire.

Stadco has offered two and three-day weeks, until next year, to 191 staff at Harlescott Lane in Shrewsbury.

It said the new hours would start on 17 November and were a reaction to a temporary drop in customer orders.

It said its plants at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, and Holbrook Lane, Coventry, would be unaffected.

Temporary measure

A company spokesman said the firm was doing "everything it could to get through these challenging economic times" without making redundancies.

The cuts in hours were announced on Friday, but workers only found out on Monday how many people it would definitely affect.

The spokesman said Stadco had agreed with Amicus union representatives that 191 people out of 270 staff on the Shrewsbury site would take a cut in hours as a temporary measure.

He said judging by customer orders he expected the factory, which opened in Shropshire in the 1920s, to resume full production in the New Year.

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