Comments on: Job cuts and roundabouts from Northcliffe

By: JeffK

JeffK — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:39:56 +0000

I just do not figure out how job opportunities are going to be created when numerous United States businesses are spending their money in China. Consider GE for instance. Their latest initiatives to manufacture jet engines for China will lead to them handing over their designs for the engines they build. A different business, Yum Brands, is getting over 50% of their sales from outside the USA. Unless trade policies are adjusted, more job losses is certain.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:18:35 +0000

If five Western Daily Press staff ‘choose’ not to uproot their family, leave their home and life and move almost three hours away to Devon, which isn’t even in the Western Daily patch. Not much of a ‘choice’ really is it? Not like the former editor’s choice of retiring on a nice pension to spend time with your wife in her deli…

By: GEORGE HALLADAY

GEORGE HALLADAY — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:03:47 +0000

Having worked for the WDP on and off for over 30 years (“retiring” two years ago, a month before my 75th birthday, I felt like going into deep mourning when I heard the news. A lot of good journalists have, and still do,work for a newspaper that I was proud to work for. I feel so sorry for those who are finding that their services are no longer required, as well the plight for those who are being invited to move to Plymouth 120 miles away. My thoughts are with you all. What is the Temple Way worth now? Should make a nice little earner for the Daily Mail Group shareholders. All the best former colleagues, George H