MP David Wright’s plea on RBS jobs ‘falls on deaf ears’
Friday 17th September 2010, 2:15PM BST.
Telford MP David Wright said he had come away empty-handed from a meeting with RBS management but he vowed to continue the fight.
The Labour member is now to raise the plight of the RBS workers in Telford, who face losing their jobs, directly with the bank’s chief executive, Stephen Hester, and with West Midlands European Parliament member Michael Cashman.
Part-nationalised RBS announced earlier this month that its Credit Management Services office at Ironmasters Way, in Telford Town Centre, would be one of 12 business service centres closed down over the next two years with the loss of up to 500 jobs.
More than half the bank’s administration centres across the UK are to go with 3,500 staff being axed in total.
Nigel Meffen, of RBS West Midlands, said the bank’s office in Birmingham would remain open and some Telford staff would be offered a chance to relocate.
Mr Wright met RBS managers in Telford yesterday to discuss the job losses in the town. He said: “I made the case for jobs remaining in Telford. They listened but I don’t think they will change their minds. I am bitterly disappointed that they won’t reconsider.”
An RBS spokesman said today: “We had a very constructive meeting and agreed to keep the dialogue open during this process.”
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Why does david wright think that he will would / should be able to save any jobs at RBS.
Whats RBS’s buisness got to do with him?
Nout.
thanks you m’lords
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As the elected representative of the people of Telford David Wright has every right, indeed has a duty, to intervene in the business of RBS when it attacks its workforce in his way. As RBS is state funded the government should also intervene to halt this jobs massacre. Of course such a scenario is highly unlikely given the ConDems’ cuts agenda, so it will be left to the workers and their unions, hopefully with the backing of Mr Wright, to make a stand on this issue.
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