News story: JLR plans to create 10,000 jobs in the UK

[Wilko220]

Thought this "breaking news" might be of interest to some.

 

Jaguar Land Rover is planning to create 10,000 UK jobs and build electric cars in the Midlands, spurred by a promise from the government that battery development and electric vehicles will be key to its industrial strategy...

 

 

https://www.ft.com/content/fa59957c-b2ae-11e6-a37c-f4a01f1b0fa1

 

 

[Bobthebeard]

Interesting but has a depressingly familiar ring to it...

Car production. UK. 10,000 jobs to be created. Government funding....

[mercrocker]

Clive Sinclair, Electric..... 

 

Seriously, though, I wish the venture well but sadly I am a cynical old twat these days.

[omegod]

Having worked at JLR on agency it's a fucking horrible place to be, you actually have to put your hand up if you need a piss/poo mid shift and they can say no !! 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Having worked at JLR on agency it's a fucking horrible place to be, you actually have to put your hand up if you need a piss/poo mid shift and they can say no !!

 

This is why I'm unemployable - I would definitely shit on the floor, just to make a ( smelly) point.

[omegod]

This is why I'm unemployable - I would definitely shit on the floor, just to make a ( smelly) point.

 

Hence I don't work there anymore.If you live in China and get a pong every time you turn on the air con in your Bronze coloured 3 door £40k evoque I wholeheartedly apologise. 

[Cavcraft]

I have to be honest and say I'm not that arsed if they got a handout or backhander, the fact we're getting new jobs is surely a good thing?

[DodgeRover]

What a bet that the funding for science they announced the other day will be channelled into this rather than other projects?

[Honey Badger]

What a bet that the funding for science they announced the other day will be channelled into this rather than other projects?

JLR already have loads of projects running with the goverment and industry working in adhesives and advanced composites, the knowledge gained is passed back through the supply train and into use on a wide range other uses, it seems a good way to spread the cost for JLR, the government and the partners it works with.

[Zantimisfit]

Whats the problem? The Government funding part?

 

You think other Govts dont back up their car industries with massive funding, much of it 'under the table'. Do you remember the French giving PSA millions in loans when it looked like they were about to run out of money a few years back and all the kerfuffle (we dont use that word nearly enough these days) about breaching of EU law. I guarantee you that if Renault and PSA were only selling 10 cars a year the French Govt would see to it they still stayed in business. Its the way the game is played and the UK needs to play to the same 'rules' otherwise you end up with nothing.

 

Anyway, I support the Govt on this...much to their relief I am sure. I think that electric Jag looks rather agreeable, at least in comparison to its likely competitors. I would like a new Jaguar one day (once it has become a very old and scruffy Jaguar) and I wish JLR and the people that work there immense and unparalleled levels of success.

[Angrydicky]

More jobs is excellent news, but the headline of the Daily Wail this morning, heralding this as a direct result of the Brexit vote was cringeworthy by their standards. I imagine The Scum, Express et al had similar headlines, all seizing on anything they can to announce Brexit was a success.

[DodgeRover]

Nothing wrong with government grants and punitive import tariffs to encourage and keep UK business going in my book just a personal dislike of not being able to call a spade a spade.

 

It was more a gut feeling that whilst the announcement I heard was for a large amount of millions for science to be distributed by an NGO based solely on merit now the majority would be handed to a 'favoured partner'.

 

As it is any investment into battery technology, composites etc can only be a good thing for the country, anything we can do better and can export must be a benefit, obviously we can't compete on price with China etc but we can try for innovation and quality.

Recovery of materials from dead or damaged batteries would be a good area to put funding into, assuming we can do it competitively rather than shipping waste to China then bringing recovered materials back.

 

Hope that made my original post a little clearer.

[lisbon_road]

I welcome the news too and agree that we have to play like the rest when it comes to government funding.  

 

Don't forget, they're also building a £1 Billion factory in (I think) Slovakia.  That's why they're relaxed about Brexit: they can build the cars for the EU there if they need to.  

 

Good luck to them; they're doing well and we could do with some more like it.  

[vaughant]

Yeah great news overall.

As for putting your hand up to go to the toilet that's the same in any production environment, something I've been involved in for over 20 years, some can hack it, some can't.

I'm maintenance so it doesn't affect me but the pressures of production generally show up the weaknesses of some trades who's cv's put them up there with Tesla and Siemens.

I've worked production as part of the team in Ford and yes it's mind numbingly boring but the day does generally fly by.

Try working on oilline pipe coating if you want to see real hard graft, not nice.