Decision to axe 2500 MoD jobs is 'madness', says
Unite
17 February 2011
Late yesterday (16 February), Defence Secretary, Liam Fox
announced that 2,500 construction and maintenance staff at the
Ministry of Defence will lose their jobs by 2014, as a result of
the creation of a new body to manage the military estate - the
Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO).
Kevin Coyne, Unite national secretary for the Ministry of
Defence said: "This is devastating for our members. It's absolute
madness, the Tories spent the 1980s decentralising the MoD and now
they're centralising it with a Stalinist fervour.
"With 2,500 fewer staff, the maintenance and running of MoD
properties and land will be run on a shoestring doing our forces
and their families a disservice.
"We urge the Government to step back from this decision."
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Contact Ciaran Naidoo on 07768 931 315
