Local Plaid AMs meet Economy Minister to discuss job losses
16 December 2008
Plaid AMs for South Wales West Bethan Jenkins and Dr Dai Lloyd have today met with Assembly Economy Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones to hold urgent discussions on recent job losses in the area.
Speaking from the Senedd today, Ms Jenkins said:
“Recent announcements on redundancies have been very difficult news for all local workers and their families and my thoughts are with them. 389 redundancies Budelpack International COSi at Maesteg has been devastating news for local communities, in addition to the job losses recently announced by Linamar at Swansea.
“It seems these days that job losses are announced on almost a daily basis. Having had urgent talks with Ieuan Wyn Jones today, I feel reassured that the Assembly Government is doing all it can to help people find new employment and is working hard to prevent further job losses in the area.”
Dr Dai Lloyd added:
“There is no doubt that Plaid’s Economic Development Minister at the Assembly is committed to doing all that he can to help businesses in Wales during this difficult economic time. However he is limited in what he can do as the main economic levers remain out of Wales’ control in Westminster.
“The UK Labour Government’s recent lack lustre economic package does not seem to be injecting the much impetus into the economy and the result of this is job losses, as seen in our region recently.”
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