500 Pfizer jobs to go at Sandwich?

• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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  14 November 2023     13:03383120
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  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/pfizer-plans-to-axe-500-jobs-at-kent-site-296903/
  "Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 7,923
  14 November 2023     17:46383122
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  Kevin in shock and anger statement!
  
  https://www.dover.gov.uk/News/Press-Releases/2023/DDC-Leader-Expresses-Shock-and-Anger-at-Pfizer-Job-Losses.aspx
  "Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
  • Posts: 3,227
  14 November 2023     19:36383123
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  Poor Kev. A little deluded, thinking he should have been consulted before the staff!
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• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,797
  15 November 2023     11:19383127
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   Reginald Barrington wrote:

  Poor Kev. A little deluded, thinking he should have been consulted before the staff!

  
  
  Delusions of grandeur by a local tin pot politician.
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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• Paul Watkins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 9 Nov 2011
  • Posts: 2,226
  15 November 2023     14:28383130
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  Whilst I was Leader & the last time Pfizer announced the major redundancy announcement, I was consulted ( not that it made any difference) as a matter of courtesy. An American PR expert was imported to deal with the process. They also followed up with more constructive meetings to follow up the ongoing processes.
  
  The MP’s for Dover & South Thanet with KCC were on also involved.
• Paul Watkins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 9 Nov 2011
  • Posts: 2,226
  15 November 2023     14:35383131
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  The PM at the time was David Cameron & both he & George Osborne were heavily involved.
  
  A support package was put together Pfizer putting up finance & a national designation for the site was announced giving support for employment initiatives.
  
  Without going into the designations & support we now have Discovery Park with a mixed employment mix.
• victor matcham

  • Registered: 5 Oct 2021
  • Posts: 1,034
  15 November 2023     15:49383133
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  Why, Why, is always this time of the year it a time for family,s Where has all the good will gone we are all just a number now .
• Dover Pilot

  • Registered: 28 Jul 2018
  • Posts: 344
  15 November 2023     17:00383135
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  Don't worry now that we have Thanet Parkway lots of companies will come and relocate to East Kent and all those new build houses will be full of happy employed workers
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• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
  • Posts: 23,856
  16 November 2023     07:04383142
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  Feel for those families there is no good time to lose your job .
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• Karlos

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 1 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 2,475
  5 June 2024     14:23384976
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  A Chinese company Asymchem is supposedly taking over some of the Sandwich site.
  Pfizer retaining a few hundred admin staff.