A Norfolk factory. Norfolk is the only county to have increased its number of manufacturing jobs during the recession
Norfolk sees increase in manufacturing jobs during the recession
Monday, January 30, 2012
10:50 AM
Norfolk has proved it has a strong manufacturing base after it has bucked national trends as the only county in the region to have increase the number of jobs in the sector during the recession.
Across the East of England 47,400 manufacturing jobs have been lost, according to a new study by the GMB out today, but Norfolk saw an increase in manufacturing sector jobs of 4,500 from 44,100 in June 2006 to 48,600 in June 2011.
Hertfordshire was hit hardest in the region with a loss of 12,000 manufacturing jobs during the recession.
In the UK as a whole the recession has cost 706,300 manufacturing jobs, an average of 3,398 per week.
In 2006/7 there were 3,546,100 people employed in manufacturing industry in the UK. The latest figures shows employment of 2,839,800 in 2010/11. This fall is on top of the 1.25m fall between 1994/5 and 2006/7.
All these figures come from a new GMB study of official data released by the ONS.
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3 comments
Tom Perhaps you might like to look at the national papers today (31_01_2012) where jobs are being advertised in places like Romania and not in this country, and it's all with the blessing of the "Slave Center Plus". This is why Unemployment, even in manufacturing is rising. What they dont tell you is that this is the reason.
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"V"
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Fothe simple reason it isn't "V". There have indeed been thousands of job losses in Norfolk, but clearly they are in retail, service industries, financial services, banking, the public sector and a host of other places. Probably in part due to the strength of food processing and energy, manufacturing is bucking the trend. Thank heavens it is.
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Tom Jeffries
Monday, January 30, 2012
"Across the East of England 47,400 manufacturing jobs were been lost, according to a new study by the GMB out today, but Norfolk saw an increase of manufacturing 4,500 from 44,100 in June 2006 to 48,600 in June 2011". The above figures do not make any sense whatsoever !. Considering that unemployment has been going up and up, how does the "survey" tell us that unemployment is falling ?
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"V"
Monday, January 30, 2012