Vehicle dealer’s workshop jobs cut

Friday 16th October 2009, 1:20PM BST.

One of Shropshire’s biggest car dealerships today announced plans to scale down part of its operation in Telford.

Bosses at Furrows today said three workers would be leaving the company following the decision to down size repair operations.

General manager Russell Smith said the site at Halesfield, which currently employs six people, would close and the three remaining workers would transfer to the Furrows site at Haybridge.

Furrows has three main vehicle sales dealerships at Shrewsbury, Telford and Oswestry as well as the truck centre at Halesfield.

But a worker from Furrows, who asked not to be named, said staff had been told the site would close in March because work had dried up.

He said bosses had announced earlier this week three workers were being made redundant and three would be relocated.

The worker claimed truck mechanics had been told they were being made redundant because the firm was reducing its commercial vehicle repair operation.

The news comes just a week after it was revealed more than two-thirds of the workforce at Telford car manufacturing giants Ogihara were to lose their jobs because of the credit crunch.

Ogihara, based at the Hortonwood industrial estate, is getting rid of 71 of the 100 workers currently on site because of a restructure and low demand for products due to the economic downturn.

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